Nails
The nails are made of keratin, a substance formed for hair and involved in the formation of the skin. Its primary function is to protect the fingers and hands of the fingers and toes, and their health is often a sign of the health of the body.
Change the color of nails
The nails are usually of a consistent color with the skin and homogenous in the nail itself, and any change that may affect this color is in its simplest evidence of progress in age, and other cases have health indicators used in the detection of the disease as a symptom. The change may be evidence of health problems in the lungs or kidneys or evidence of heart or liver disease, and the change in nail color may be associated with chronic disease such as diabetes and blood problems.
Some other changes, such as the appearance of white spots or extra tissues around the nails, are problematic, but they are harmless. They affect the aesthetic view only.
There are changes in the color of nails is a sign of the disease of the nail itself, and the most important of these diseases fungi, fungal diseases transmitted through an infection, which often affect the nails of the feet as they are usually in the shoe, creating a wet environment Incubator of these diseases. The person suffering from these diseases suffers from a change in the color of the nail and its severity, which increases until the stages are difficult to deal with, and in these diseases begins to change the color of the nail towards yellow gradually until it becomes yellow and dark if the stages of the disease progresses apart from the fact that these diseases makes the feet have a bad smell Especially after wearing the shoe.
The disease can be avoided by regular and frequent care of the nails and feet, and caution in areas where there is water on the ground, such as swimming pools and ponds, and increase the possibility of exposure to an innate infection if the person is already sick with any disease that decreases his immunity or has diabetes, He had already had it before, especially if he was sweating a lot.
Bacterial infections are caused by skin rupture or injury in an area close to the nail. Bacteria may find entry or infection due to bad habits such as finger sucking, nail clawing, or excessive exposure to water through excessive sweating or exposure to water, exposure Bacterial infection often makes the nails gradually turn dark red, which in turns turns bad for black, causing great pain that prevents a person from wearing shoes or walking fast.