Peeling Nails

[237SJ]

I was googling a remedy for peeling fingernails (when they peel away in layers) and one website said that this can be caused by vitamin A deficiency. Is there any scientific basis to that or is it just something a non-qualified beauty person has made up?

[Sqad]

SJ.........In a lifetime of medicine I have never seen or heard of a case of Vitamin A deficiency in the Western World. It can be caused by malnutrition which would be more obvious to the observer than "peeling nails."

So............your non-qualified beauty person............is making it up.

[237SJ]

Thanks Sqad. I thought it was probably rubbish. Some of the claims that people in the so-called beauty business make are ridiculous. If that was in any other industry, they would be sued for misrepresentation.

[Buenchico]

If it's got anything to do with vitamins (which I doubt), B7 might be more relevant:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nail-abnormalities/Pages/Introduction.aspx
It's far more likely to be environmental, such as the use of detergents or nail polish.

[237SJ]

Thanks buenchico. I don`t think it`s anything to do with vitamin B and it`s not the other two - I hardly ever wear nail varnish and I wear rubber gloves for washing up. Probably just "one of those things"

[rsvp]

try any type of hoof application recommended for horses - grooms have brilliant nails!

[modeller]

I don't know about finger nails but nail fungus on toe nails can cause loss of nails , roughness , sort of layering etc.