Severe horizontal ridges in toenail?

Question

My husband has some severe ridges in his toenails that are ripping off, he takes a multivitamin for men that has sufficient amounts of b and iron in it. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

All the answers given are interesting but I do not think your husband has a vitamin deficiency or a fungal infection. What he has are called Beau's lines. They are ridges which occur in the nails. Look under Google or Yahoo images. They are not that common and are thought to be related to either physical stress, trauma or emotional stress. The British doctors are experts on nail conditions and I picked up this tip from them. Do a bit of search for other info. Hope that helps! Good luck

Answer 2

It may be a fungal infection of the nail bed that eventually affects the whole nail.
A skin specialist should be consulted, and cultures taken. But infections do not always turn up the particular to identify the particular fungal parasite.
The good news is that the infection rarely spreads to other tissue. And if it does, antifungal antibiotics can usually clean it out of the skin.
The bad news is 1) regular antibiotics are good for bacteria and their cousines but of no value against fungi.
2) There a a number of antifungal drugs that may work. But few adequately get into the seat of the infection, the nail bed. If they do, the treatment usually lasts for months and sometimes for one or more years. Many such conditions are never completely cured.
We have many more antifungal drugs available,today, versus 30 years ago when there were only a few and really only one that worked and sometimes. griseofulvin.
Some of the triazole and imidazole drugs work, e.g. itraconazole, ketoconazole, miconazole, econazole, clotrimazole, & fluconazole etc.). The first one, in that list produces the best results; but they are not great.
Some of the newer drugs work, but by no means always. For example Lamisil ( = terbinafine), amarolefine etc.
Newer drugs are in clinical trial and should issue shortly.
A recent report in the scientific literature reports that Vicks Vaporub can clean up some nailbed fungal infections after months of daily application, I'll let you know if it works, in 9 months or so.
Susceptibility to nailbed fungal infections runs in families. (it might help to ask around). Older people are more likely to have them.
Then again the problem may have another cause.
Get it checked by a specialist, and cultured,
I wish I had better news.
Dan The Answers-Man.

Answer 3

Toenail Horizontal Ridges

Answer 4

sometimes that is a symptom of two much of one element in a body, like lead or arsenic.......maybe get your water tested

Answer 5

vitamin A.

Answer 6

You go to doctor.

Answer 7

umm.... lamisil and it also could be some type of athletes foot

Answer 8

that is a fungus under the nail
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