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Leukonychia - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment of Leukonychia

What is Leukonychia ?

Leukonychia is a medical appellation for white atoms appeaarena on attachs . Leukonychia can occur with arsenic poisoning, apprehendt disease, renal aborture, pneumonia, or hypoalbuminemia.

Common Causes of Leukonychia

• Chronic expoabiding to moisture or to attach polish can produce brittle attachs with barking of the bend of the attach.
• A cblitz injury to abject of the attach or the attach bed may produce a permanent deformity.
• The best common cause is injury to the abject (matrix) of the attach .
• Deficiency of copper and zinc in dody.
• Fungus or yeast produce changes in the color, argumenture, and shape of the attachs.
• Vitamin deficiency can cause a loss of luster or brittle attachs

Symptoms of Leukonychia

Some of the common symptoms of Leukonychia are :-

• White attachs.
• Abnormal colored attachs.
• bark cysts.

Treatment for Leukonychia

• aliment like wheat bran , waperture grains , nuts and green bladey vegetables should be consumed in daily activity for the deficiency of zinc, which attributed to appearance of white atoms.
• For attach abnormalities due to attach biting, acesing, and breaching, stop these behaviors.
• For brittle attachs, accumulate the attachs short and aabandoned attach polish. Use an emollient (bark softening) cream In the column ablutioning or ablutioning.