Nail Diseases/ Disorders/ Conditions

Indentations similar to horizontal corrugations that run across nail.

Visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate; results of major illness or injury that has traumatized the body.

• Discolored Nails

• Bruised Nail Beds

• Beau's Lines

• Blue Finger nails

Blue or purple nail bed, usually from poor circulation

• Blue Finernails

• Bruised Nail Beds

• Pincer Nail

• Hangnail

Ringworm of the hand;

Appears as rings containing tiny blisters, dark pink to reddish in color.

Dry flakes; can be confused with eczema or contact dermatitis

• Tinea pedis

• Tinea Manus

• Paronychia

• Onycholysis

Ringworm of the nail;

Nail becomes thick and discolors from black to brown or beige to white; can develop white scaly patches with yellow streaks under nail plate

• Onychoptosis

• Onychia

• Onychomycosis

• Onychatrophia

Bacterial inflammations of the tissues surrounding the nail;

Redness, pus, swollen, sore, warm to touch is visible in the skin fold and can lose the nail; nail my grow out deformed but can recover shape

• Onycholysis

• Onychomycosis

• Onychatrophia

• Paronychia

Itching and peeling of the skin on feet; blisters containing colorless fluid form in groups or singly on sores and between toes, leaving sore or itchy skin on feet.

• Onychomycosis

• Tinea Pedis

• Onychia

• Onycholysis

Shedding or falling off of nails. If the disease causing the problem is cured, the nail will regrow. Nail bed will be sensitive and should be protected while nail regrows

• Onychatrophia

• Onycholysis

• Onychoptosis

• Onychia

Loosening or separation of nail

• Onycholysis

• Onychia

• Onychatrophia

• Paroychia

Inflammation of the nail matrix;

Pus formation, red swollen and tender. Nail may stop growing and plate may detach.

• Onychia

• Onychatrophia

• Onycholysis

• Onychomycosis

Atrophy of nail or wasting away of nail;

Nail shrinks in size and may separate from nail bed.

• Onychoptosis

• Paroychia

• Onycholysis

• Onychatrophia