Nails differentiate BTW Spoon Oncholysis and Fungus
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:30 am
Rochelle Differentiate between Spoon Nails
► Soft nails that look scooped out. Depression is usually large enough to hold a drop of liquid. Often indicates iron deficiency anemia.
► Extremities; NAILS; complaints of; depressed: med.
Onycholysis
n Lifting of the nail from the nail bed. Causes: trauma, psoriasis, drug reactions, bacterial/fungal infection, contact dermatitis from using nail hardeners, thyroid disease, iron deficiency anemia or syphilis.
n Looseness fingernails: apis., med., pyrog., ust.
Yellow nails (fungus) eaten up and falling off
* Nail hypertrophy
* Thickening of the nail. Either congenital (e.g. Mal de Meleda) or acquired - The nail becomes deformed with claw like appearance. Causes: Not cutting the nails, trauma, Leprosy, peripheral vascular disorders.
* NAILS; hypertrophy: calc-f., fl-ac., graph., laur.
* NAILS; thick: alum., anan., ant-c., ars., but-ac., calc., calc-f., calo., caust., falco-p., ferr., fl-ac., Graph., merc., pitu-a., pop-c., sabad., sec., sep., Sil., sulph., ust., x-ray
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► Soft nails that look scooped out. Depression is usually large enough to hold a drop of liquid. Often indicates iron deficiency anemia.
► Extremities; NAILS; complaints of; depressed: med.
Onycholysis
n Lifting of the nail from the nail bed. Causes: trauma, psoriasis, drug reactions, bacterial/fungal infection, contact dermatitis from using nail hardeners, thyroid disease, iron deficiency anemia or syphilis.
n Looseness fingernails: apis., med., pyrog., ust.
Yellow nails (fungus) eaten up and falling off
* Nail hypertrophy
* Thickening of the nail. Either congenital (e.g. Mal de Meleda) or acquired - The nail becomes deformed with claw like appearance. Causes: Not cutting the nails, trauma, Leprosy, peripheral vascular disorders.
* NAILS; hypertrophy: calc-f., fl-ac., graph., laur.
* NAILS; thick: alum., anan., ant-c., ars., but-ac., calc., calc-f., calo., caust., falco-p., ferr., fl-ac., Graph., merc., pitu-a., pop-c., sabad., sec., sep., Sil., sulph., ust., x-ray
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