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Your fingernails hold clues to your health. Learn to recognize the signs that might indicate a health issue. Some nail conditions are harmless. These include vertical ridges, which may become more pronounced as you age, and white lines or spots. Spots usually result from injury to the nail plate or nail bed. In time the white spots will grow out. Other nail conditions can indicate disease. For example, yellow or green discoloration in your nails may result from a respiratory condition, such as chronic bronchitis, or from swelling of your hands (lymphedema). Indentations that run across your nails, called Beau's lines, appear when growth at the area under your cuticle is interrupted. This might occur because of an injury or severe illness, such as a heart attack. Mashall Pat wrote: > Does anyone know about a cause for vertical ridges in the > fingernails? They look healthy, no sign of anything wrong other than > many vertical ridges in every fingernail. All my life they've been > thin and too delicate to grow out long, but they were always smooth. > Several months ago I asked my doctor about the ridges and she said she > hopes they don't mean anything is wrong and showed me her nails which > looked just like mine. They seem to have gotten worse in the last few > months, so CS must not do a thing for them. > > > Pat > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!
