Changes in the color, shape, texture or thickness of the finger or toe nails. They can occur for a lot of different reasons like injuries, infections, certain medications and underlying disorders. Some of the types are:

• Beau's lines are horizontal ridges in the nail.
• Nail clubbing - nails that curve down around the fingertips with nailbeds that bulge is associated with oxygen deprivation and lung, heart, or liver disease.
• Habit-tic deformity is a condition similar to Beau's Lines caused by long-term skin picking.
• Koilonychia - spooning, or nails that grow upwards. Associated with iron-deficiency anaemia or vitamin B12 deficiency.
• Pitting of the nails is associated with psoriasis.

Discolouration, Curling, Clubbing, Thickening or Thinning, Brittle, Pitted, Bleeding, Inflammation, Pain, Separation of Nails.

Treatment depends on the causes of the Nail abnormalities.

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