Let Your Nails Tell You About Your General Health and Wellbeing
People often wonder why when you go in for a surgical procedure, the nurse requests that you have no nailpolish on any of your nails. This enables the anesthesiologist to see immediately of you are oxygen deprived if they turn blueish-grey. Our finger and toe nails are very effective windows to our general healthy and well-being and should be taken special note of. NAIL GROWTH: Everyone experiences different speeds of nail growth. Our nails are like our hair growth - sometimes quick, other times slow. This speed depends on several factors. Nails often grow faster in summer than winter. Men's nails tend to grow more quickly than women's, except possibly during pregnancy and old age. Sometimes the nails on a person's dominant hand (hand most used) grow faster. The growth rate of fingernails often also outpaces that of the toenails. On average, fingernails grow 2 to 3 millimeters in one month, and toenails grow 1 millimeter per month. Disease, hormone imbalance, and aging ca...