Take a good look at your fingernails and you may notice subtle variations in the texture or color - a touch of white here, a rosy tinge there, perhaps some rippling or bumps in the surface. These imperfections may not look like much to you, but to the trained eye they can provide valuable clues about your overall health
Joshua Fox, MD, director of Advanced Dermatology and a spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology lists the following 10 examples of nail changes that could indicate a serious medical condition.
Nail Appearance
white nails indicates:Liver diseases.such as Hepatities
Yellowish, thickened, slow-growing nails indicates : Lung diseases, such as Emphysema
Yellowish nails with a slight blush at the base indicates : Diabetes
Half-white, half-pink nails indicates : Kidney diseses
red nail bed indicates :Heart disese
pale or white nail beds indicates : Anemia
rippling of the nail surface indicates : Psoriasis or inflammatory arthritis
"Clubbing," a painless increase in tissue around the ends of the fingers, or inversion of the nail
indicates : Lung diseases
Irregular red lines at the base of the nail fold indicates : Lupus or connective tissue disease
Dark lines beneath the nail indicates : Melanoma
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