Here we introduce pictures of a variety of nail diseases.
Please use the pictures uploaded on this site as general guidelines. Diseases of the nail are very similar to each other and very difficult to self-diagnose by inexperienced individuals.
“If you find any abnormalities in the nail” yet as is written, problems in your body manifest in your nails as a warning sign. There is a small possibility that the disease is caused by a large internal problem. It must said repeatedly that pictures uploaded on this site should only be used a guidelines.
| Disease name | Images | Symptoms |
| Hangnails |  |
Skin at the root of the nail hanging off. |
| spoon nails |  |
The centre of the nail forming a dent and creating a spoon shape. |
| Eggshell nails |  |
The nail becoming white, thin and growing inwards. |
| Nail-biting syndrome |  |
Excess biting causing the nail to deform. |
| Megalonychia |  |
The centre of the nail enlarging. |
| Subungual bleeding |  |
Blood accumulating below the nail due injury and external damage. |
| Paronychia |  |
Bacterial infection entering from a wound and causing reddening and inflammation. |
| Disease name | Images | Symptoms |
| Onycholysis |  |
The nail becoming yellow or whitish in colour and detaches from the floorplate. |
| Onychorrhexis |  |
A vertical crack appearing in the nail, causing the nail to split. |
| Ungual atrophy |  |
The nail becomes weakened, the colour of the nail darkens and eventually falls off. |
| Leukonychia |  |
White spots appearing on the surface of the nail. Caused by damage of air bubbles in newly growing nails. |
| Athlete’s foot/trichophytosis |  |
Many white atypical lumps forming on the nail. Very infectious and requires caution. |
| Onychogryposis |  |
The surface of the nail becoming thick and forming a hook like shape at the end. |
| Pterygium |  |
The ends of the nail biting into the skin, repeatedly causing infection and bleeding. |
| Ingrown toenails |  |
Occurs when the nail is long and digs into neighbouring skins and causes prolonged ingrowth. Seen commonly when wearing shoes of the wrong size. |
