Look carefully at your fingernails.. How much white semi-cirlce u have? When i was very young my mother who is a nurse told me that the more the white thing the more healthy u are.
And i really agree, coz when i'm sick, the white thing becomes very little, yet after i recover it becomes more again.
So what is the white thing? And does it really represent how heathy we are?
2006-07-20 20:50:01 · 6 answers · asked by a V a 4 in Health ➔ Other - Health
the semi-circle you are referringto is your cuticle and you know what you may be right, i just looked at mine and they are little and i have a whole book of illnesses but....................try taking a cuticle stick and pushing back the skin and see if they are larger sometimes the skin stsrts growing up towards the nail and it needs to be pushed back
2006-07-20 20:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by oceanlady580 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin B12 History
Learn about Methylcobalamin, the active form of B12
The truth isn't far off.
Like a healthy plant, your fingernails grow. And, just
as leaves show the health of a plant, your fingernails
reveal your health and inner condition. (Hippocrates,
400 B.C.E.)
Every six months you have a new fingernail, from
cuticle to tip. The rate of growth is about an eighth
inch a month.
Good vitamin B12 levels give you white moons on all
your fingers; the thumbs' are the last to go. (Tessa
Jupp, R.N., active in the Post-Polio Network, Dec.
2001)
If your moons have disappeared, you may have been
short of vitamin B12 for a long time. If so, you may
be noticing symptoms of B12 Malabsorption Illness:
tingling hands and feet
numbness
memory problems
feeling exhausted
depression
sensitivity to noise
a lot of brown spots
bleeding gums
burning sensation (possibly on thighs)
your legs jump at night
bone pain
balance and gait problems
heavy menstrual bleeding or nose bleeds
diarrhea
Before your moons disappear, lines develop on your
nails. These can be faint, to very visible ridges like
fine wax drippings on a Chianti bottle -- lines on top
of lines, like hog back hills. To see them clearly, use
a magnifying glass or even reading glasses.
If you have faint lines, no more noticeable than the
tassels on the wheat in the image to the left, then run
through the barbed issues above, looking for ones
that apply to you. If three or four do, then be
warned that the others may be only a few years
away. If, that is, you do nothing.
Blue skin under your fingernails indicates that you
may be short of red blood cells and by extension,
the oxygen they carry.
Red blood cells are supposed to divide.
For more information, click on the healthy splat...
What your fingernails may be telling you is that your
nerves are being affected by a B12 malabsorption
illness.
2006-07-20 21:00:20 · answer #2 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The white thing is a lack of Calcium in your system, thats all, nuttin dangerous, so eat more foods with calcium or just go to the health shop and buy some calcium pills.Within a week it will go away.
2006-07-20 20:54:57 · answer #3 · answered by yahwhoon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not much for me o.o
yes i'm pretty sure it kinda shows how healthy you are in some way..not sure what they are tho
2006-07-20 20:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya it shows that u have calcium deficiency
2006-07-20 20:54:29 · answer #5 · answered by kartik i 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called moons.
2006-07-20 20:53:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋