If the nail plate to change shape and color, it can be a testimony of the development of cancer. On what to pay attention?
One of the dangerous symptoms associated with the condition of nails, a sharp change in the color plates. So, for example, has become very pale, almost white nails – a likely sign that the liver failed.
In addition, the doctors, change the appearance of the nail may indicate cancer diseases. So, the education under my nails in a beige, brown or black stripes or dots occur in the presence of melanoma (a type of skin cancer).
In addition, the presence of cancer may be indicative of the nail plate, which are strongly bent over the fingertips.
“If the tips of the fingers become thicker, and the nails are unnaturally deformed, changed the direction of growth, it is often a symptom of lung cancer,” explained the experts.
These explanations physicians was published in the British media. Recently, local sources reported about the history of British women Jenny Williams Taylor, whose doctors diagnosed her with cancer after she published on the social network post with the photo of their nails changing. Ask a question about did anyone else something like that, Jenny received reports from medical staff that she should definitely be checked for cancer. Having listened to this opinion, the British referred to the clinic, and two weeks later she was diagnosed with cancer of the lungs.
Earlier Electrum wrote about the three basic methods of nail care.