1, nails are healthy.
(1) What do nails with iron deficiency look like?
Iron is also the most important and indispensable trace element in human body. If the body is short of iron, it is easy to suffer from iron deficiency anemia, especially female friends. Iron deficiency is easy to cause anemia. Female ischemia not only has skin problems, but also affects memory. Children must supplement iron, otherwise it will easily lead to cognitive impairment. If the nail appears anti-nail, the nail inclines around and the nail is flat, which is likely to be iron deficiency.
(2) What are zinc-deficient nails like?
Children will have symptoms of zinc deficiency, which is an important trace element in human body. Zinc deficiency in children can cause mental problems, especially in adolescence, and zinc deficiency in boys is directly manifested as developmental retardation. So boys must supplement enough zinc. If there are white spots on the nails, it is a sign of zinc deficiency, and zinc should be supplemented in time.
(3) What does a calcium-deficient nail look like?
Many parents usually lack calcium when they take their children for examination. In addition to still being there, adults, the elderly and pregnant women are generally short of calcium. Calcium deficiency is almost common in China, but what kind of nails are calcium deficient? Touch your nails with your hands. If you feel angular and uneven, it is a sign of calcium deficiency.
2. Methods to prevent onychomycosis
Prevention of onychomycosis should start from the following aspects:
1. First of all, we should pay attention to the prevention and treatment of tinea manus and pedis, and correct the incorrect view that tinea pedis will not cause other diseases.
2. Don't borrow daily necessities, such as shoes and socks, slippers, footbath, foot towel, etc. Don't share it with others, which is the key to prevent indirect infection of onychomycosis.
3. Develop good hygiene habits, wash your feet and change your socks frequently, and keep your shoes and socks exposed and dry.
4. People with sweaty hands and feet can appropriately use some treatments to suppress local perspiration. Summer is the frequent period of tinea manus and pedis, so we should pay special attention to it.
5. Do a good job in environmental sanitation, and don't create an external environment for the growth and reproduction of pathogenic fungi, such as avoiding crowded and humid houses, paying attention to indoor ventilation, drying bedding frequently, and washing sheets, shirts and pants frequently. The daily necessities of patients with onychomycosis and tinea of hands and feet at home should be disinfected regularly with boiling water, and the items that cannot be burned should be disinfected by sunlight for 2-3 hours.
6. Enhancing the body's ability to resist pathogenic fungi, such as strengthening physical exercise and paying attention to nutrition, is conducive to improving the prevention of onychomycosis.
7. Patients with tinea manuum, tinea pedis and tinea capitis should be treated actively and seriously as soon as possible to avoid the development of the disease and infect others.