Tips for healthy nails

Don’t mess around, take targeted nutrition, and don’t take on small problems. If you do these three things, you will get more use than applying hundreds of dollars of imported armor oil tubes.

My veteran technician who has been doing manicures for 8 years always complains to me that every week I encounter customers whose nails are as thin as sun-softened potato chips. Half of them can fall off when they are peeled off. Most of them are caused by excessive manicures. There has always been controversy about whether manicures will hurt the nails. Most practitioners in the nail industry believe that the current regular removable nail polish glue itself is very corrosive and will not hurt the nails as long as the operation is standardized. The core of the injury is the unqualified polishing and nail removal steps - if the technician has to remove a large layer of the cuticle of the nail surface for the sake of durability, or if the nail is removed by digging hard and using nail polish remover for more than 20 minutes, no matter how good the glue is, the nails will become brittle. Some friends from the dermatology department hold a different view, saying that the metabolism of the nails themselves does not need to rely on the nail surface to "breathe". Even if you do a manicure once a month, as long as you leave a window period of about a week for the nails to repair themselves, there will basically be no problem. Both arguments are actually valid. The key point is not to wear the nail surface too much for the effect of manicure. Don’t pick it off yourself. If you are really worried, doing it once every two months is enough to make your nails look pretty.

When it comes to small signs on nails, many people’s first reaction is lack of nutrition. In fact, it cannot be generalized. I had several small white spots on my fingernails in the past two years. My mother insisted that I had roundworms in my stomach and wanted to give me anti-worm medicine. Finally, I went to the hospital to see a dermatologist. The doctor laughed and said that the damage was caused by my fingernail hitting the door frame when opening the door. It would disappear when the nail grew out. I worried about it for half a month. Of course, there are indeed nail problems caused by nutritional deficiencies: for example, nails are so soft that they can be easily turned over, and splits occur more frequently than the ends of my hair that are burned. It is most likely due to a lack of protein and biotin. Just eat more boiled eggs, skinned peanuts, and deep-sea fish. There is no need to buy hundreds of armor nutrition tablets, as the absorption rate is not as high as food supplements; If there are always hangnails on the edges of your nails, listen to my advice and don't tear them off. My fingers were swollen for three days and it hurt to hold a pen. Finally, I applied povidone iodine for a week. Most of these problems are caused by dry skin on the edges of the nails and a lack of B vitamins. After washing your hands, apply hand cream on the edges of your fingers. Eat more whole grains, and the results will be much faster than taking supplements. Oh, by the way, the debate about vertical lines on nails has never stopped. The older generation always said that vertical lines are caused by liver and kidney problems. Some people on the Internet said that vertical lines are caused by staying up late. The current clinical consensus is that as long as the vertical lines do not suddenly become deeper and wider, accompanied by nail cracks and unevenness, most of them are natural or normal aging phenomena. You don’t need to worry about it at all. If you are worried, just check the blood routine and don’t buy health care products blindly.

Let’s talk about the common little problem that everyone has the most trouble with, paronychia. My brother always liked to cut his nails very short, and the edges wanted to be cut into the flesh. In the end, his toes were so swollen that it hurt to wear slippers. He insisted on going to the pedicure shop downstairs to have the ingrown toenails removed. My mother said that she wanted to go to the hospital to have the nails removed. The two of them argued about this for a long time, and finally a friend from the dermatology department gave him a compromise: just When the redness and swelling begin but there is no pus, soak it with iodophor for 5 minutes every day, then roll medical cotton into thin strips and stuff it into the gap between the ingrown nail and the flesh. Change it once a day and wait for three or four days. When the nail grows out, it will no longer pierce the flesh. It is much less painful than nail removal and less likely to relapse than random digging in a pedicure shop. Of course, if it has pus and is so swollen that you can't even walk, don't carry it on, go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Don't believe in the pedicure packs that can cure paronychia. If the infection spreads, it will be more troublesome. There are also hard little bumps around the nails. Many people think they are calluses and scrape them off with a knife. The more they scrape, the bigger they get. They are common warts, caused by viral infection. You really need to go to the hospital for freezing or applying medicine. Don't mess with it yourself, as it can easily spread to other fingers.

In fact, there really aren’t that many flashy tips for maintaining nails. I’ve seen many people buy a drawer of nail polish and finger edge oil, and apply them more carefully than their skin care routine. In the end, they turn around and go for a manicure, polishing the nail surface until it is translucent, and no panacea works. To put it bluntly, don’t blindly get your nails done. If you have a minor problem, don’t blindly rely on folk remedies. If something is really wrong, go to the hospital and see a doctor. It’s more reliable than any trick posted online.