Module 5 Nail Diseases

Keep nail shaped and trimmed. Keeping nail attractive help them keeps healthy.

• True

• False

Ignore inflammation, a strange growth, color or texture.

• True

• False

Peel off your polish. It also removes layers of actual nails.

• True

• False

Sterilize nail tools. It should be cleaned.

• True

• False

Keep nails dry and clean. This helps protect them from fungi and bacteria.

• True

• False

It is caused by dry cuticles that have been cut to close to the nail causing the cuticle around the nail splits. What condition of nail disorder is being referred to?

• Hangnails

• Onychauxis

• Onychoptosis

• Pterygium

It is an overgrowth of the nail caused by internal imbalance, local infection or heredity.

• hangnails

• Onychauxis

• Onychoptosis

• Pterygium

An infectious disease cause by (vegetable parasite) with whitish patches that can be scraped off the surfaces of the nails.

• blue nails

• Onychauxis

• Onychomychosis

• Pterygium

The nail has an uneven growth characterized by thick, dry and brittle with verible ridges usually resulting from an illness. It may indicate malnutrition psoriasis or a thyroid problem.

• blue nails

• eggshell nails

• hangnails

• ridges

The condition of the nail cause by improper diet, internal disease medication or nervous disorder.

• eggshell nail

• onychogyptosis

• onychoptosis

• onychauxis