Healthy nails: integrated approach

It is possible to judge health of a nail, only considering it in true, natural state – without grinding and polishing, gel, varnish and acrylic. A healthy marigold has a flat elastic surface, pink color and accurately outlined holes. Any aberration – sign of failures in work of an organism. And problems with nails can speak about serious violations in harmonious work of all organism.

Let's look at them attentively and it is comparable with an ideal! What is not enough for our nails to approach it?

To answer this question in each case, it is necessary to represent and that nails represent. According to scientific definition, nails represent additional formation of skin, the dense horn plate closing a front part of a trailer phalanx of fingers. A nail basis – dense proteins-polymers keratins. It is known that on finger-tips there are a lot of nervous terminations, and nails carry out very important role of protection of sensitive finger-tips against injuries and deformations. The nail on a nail bed which surface is covered with small combs and grooves is located. The same combs and grooves are also on the lower part of a nail (in strict compliance: to each comb on a bed the groove on a nail). Through this connection (a comb - a groove) nail food is carried out. And the nail from a matrix which is located under skin of the last phalanx of a finger grows and proceeds to an interphalanx joint.

Nails very sensitively react to external and internal influences to which our organism is exposed, they remember these influences and "tell" us about them change of color, a form and quality of nails. The lack of an organism of necessary substances, various diseases are reflected in a nail plate. Within 3-4 months on a nail this information in the "ciphered" look is saved.

"Blossoming" of nails

Quite often on nails white specks and strips of the different sizes and forms are observed, this phenomenon has the special name – a leykokhiniya and arises generally because of improper feeding, or the wrong digestion of nutrients as a result of the postponed disease or a stress. So if at you such manifestations are observed from time to time, pay attention to the diet, perhaps the leykokhiniya reason in an unbalanced diet: the organism lacks proteins, fats, vitamins. If nails "blossomed" after the postponed infectious disease (flu, quinsy, etc.), then also vitaminized food will help to cope with a problem.

Change of color

• If you paid attention that nails became pale or on the contrary, gained unnaturally red color, you should not correct business, painting over nails is delicious. It will be more correct not to postpone a visit to the doctor, such changes can be the first symptoms of serious diseases.

• Reddish-bluish color of nails says that perhaps the organism badly acquires iron.

• The dim nail plate, lack of gloss, yellowish-gray color and longitudinal grooves signal about a lack of an organism of protein and fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D.

• Also yellow or brown coloring of nails has to guard.

If except color, the shape of a nail, its transparency and thickness, very high probability of fungal damage of a nail changes (onikhomikoz). Despite abundance of antifungal means in drugstores, it is better not to self-medicate nevertheless, you will not be able independently to determine by appearance of a nail of an infecting agent, and it is quite possible that the medicine chosen by you will be inefficient.



What the shape of a nail speaks about

Scientists found regularity of influence of some diseases on a form of a nail plate. So, at tendency to organic heart diseases, nails usually short and flat. The big size of a lunula (a half moon at the nail basis) speaks about predisposition to tachycardia, and its absence - about heart neurosis. Asthmatics have nails flat too, but bent, tubercular patients with the acquired tuberculosis have nails just convex, and at children with congenital tuberculosis of lungs the big half moon is added to camber. Thin concave nails speak about a lack of iron of an organism, and the extended nails - can indicate diabetes, pathology of a thyroid gland can be assumed in a crescent-shaped shape of nails, their yellowish color. If nails became uneven, with horizontal "waves" – perhaps the organism lacks folic acid (B9 vitamin) and also RR vitamins (nicotinic acid) and B5 (pantothenic acid).

Products with high content of folic acid: dark green vegetables with leaves (spinach, a lettuce, an asparagus), carrots, yeast, a liver, an egg yolk, cheese, a melon, apricots, pumpkin, avocado, beans, whole wheat and dark rye flour).

Of course, only the experienced doctor-diagnostician and that indirectly, but any change of a form, its deviation from accepted standards can make the diagnosis in a shape of nails, has to guard.

No to fragility and stratification of nails

The increased fragility, according to professionals, can be caused by both external, and internal factors.

Various aggressive detergents, first of all, are ranked as external factors. They are used often why their harmful effect repeatedly amplifies, and the nail grows very slowly: its growth from a nail hole to free edge lasts 4-6 months. The way out - during cleaning, washing and washing of ware to use gloves if it seems inconveniently, - to buy soft detergents, for protection and care of nails to grease hands and nails with the nutritious cream containing vitamins A and E and the regenerating additives.

Internal factor – besides, improper feeding. Nails for durability need calcium in combination with phosphorus and salts of coal acid, but not only! Cholesterol is very important for health of nails (and a hair). This substance (unfairly accused of many sins) plays a huge role not only in formation of nails and hair, but also in their ability to hold water. And water is necessary even for firm nails. If it insufficiently they exfoliate, split and break. Therefore, excessive hobby for the sun and fashionable bezkholesterinovy diets can be the cause of fragility of nails. That will restore durability of nails it is necessary to enter cheese and fermented milk products, low-fat meat, fish, butter, sunflower seeds and nuts into the daily menu (except peanut). The lack of vitamin C also involves stratification, fragility of nails. Vitamin C contains in a kiwi, tomatoes, apples, sauerkraut, a sea-buckthorn, a gooseberry, oranges, lemons, greens.

And still nails love gelatin so various jellies and jellied fish will be not superfluous in your diet.

By the way, food, protein-rich, mineral substances, vegetable oils, vitamins and gelatin, is useful also for quite healthy nails: at such diet they will become even stronger and more beautiful.

From house external means for strengthening of nails it is possible to recommend special trays:

• 2 glasses of water, 1 tablespoon of salt, 2 slices of a lemon – to dissolve, heat, lower hands and to hold 10 minutes, to repeat the procedure every other day.

• 2 glasses of water, 2 spoons of sea salt, 2 teaspoons of olive oil - and further, as well as in the first option.

It is possible to treat stratification of nails olive oil, accurately rubbing it in a cuticle with circular motions. It is possible to mix olive oil with 1-2 drops of lemon juice, to apply on a nail, to put on cotton gloves and to leave for the night.

Well and of course, the appearance of nails deserves the most attentive relation not only in terms of their health, but for esthetics reasons. Kind of we were smartly and are fashionably dressed what refined make-up would not be put on a face, insufficiently clean and broken nails can become that a small spoon of tar which completely will spoil all impression about us. Therefore care of nails has to be daily as toothbrushing.