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Your fingernails and toenails protect the tissues of your fingers and toes. They are layers of a hardened protein, keratin, also found in hair and skin.

Nails as health clues

  • Healthy nails are usually smooth and evenly colored.
  • Warning signs: some kinds of discoloration and changes in growth rate can signal lung, heart, kidney or liver disease, diabetes or anemia.
  • Harmless: white spots and vertical ridges.

Problems that may need treatment

  • bacterial and fungal infections;
  • ingrown nails;
  • tumors;
  • warts.

Prevention

Keep nails clean, dry and trimmed. Don't remove the cuticle — that can cause infection.

Sources

Based on "Nail Diseases," MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine; a work of the United States government in the public domain.

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