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You think you have broken nails, but this change could point to something worse
Beautiful fingernails are like a business card. Who likes to shake hands with nasty hands and nails? But some people can not care for their brittle nails . They care and nurture and yet the fingernails look bad. Do you feel the same? Guilt could be an undiscovered skin disease.
Why do the fingernails look different?
Psoriasis - better known as psoriasis - does not only get on the skin, but also on the fingernails. Most of the broken nails are a harbinger of psoriatic arthritis. Especially patients of this joint and skin disease have changed fingernails.
What do the fingernails look like?
The fingernails begin to lift and release from the nail bed. They also crumble and crack. Often also white spots appear. One distinguishes between pot nails, crumb nails or oil stains.
Spiked nails: Indentations on the nails are created. They detach from the nail bed.
Crumb nails: crumb nails release the nail and become crumbly. The entire nail plate is porous.
Oil Spike Nails: Here, inflammation causes yellowish spots on the nails. They arise in the nail bed.
This change can also occur together in nail psoriasis. If you have similar nail problems, talk to your doctor about it. He can find out about a blood test if it is nail psoriasis.
Left: a nail loosens, right: a nail becomes porous
What can be done against the nail changes?
A quick treatment can ensure that nail psoriasis is stopped on time. Even a threatening psoriatic arthritis can be stopped in time. However, the treatment means a lot of patience.
Oil stains and spotted nails are often not treated further because they only interfere visually. Porous nails can hinder everyday life. Disconnecting nails make it impossible to open things or do other everyday things. There are various preparations for application, which proceed with cortisone against the dissolution of the nail . However, these help only after months and have to act with special associations .
Today, severe cases of nail psoriasis are treated by the same means as skin psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. Biologics are the latest drugs that show high efficacy.
