Brittle and fragile nails due to lack of vitamins

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The health of your nails depends on your diet and how rich your diet is in vitamins and minerals. Many times we seek to have beautiful nails but we forget to take care of the essential that is the health of the body as a whole. In the end we have brittle and fragile nails and we do not understand why.

Having fragile, scaly or brittle nails can be a symptom of an alteration in the body, a systemic disease or nutritional disorders and deficits.

Nails over time undergo many changes that must be considered before issuing a single diagnosis of mycosis as many doctors usually do.

Nail alterations and nutritional deficits

Below we relate very frequent problems with nails that are related to the lack of any specific vitamin in the diet:


– Vitamin A deficiency – Nails break like an eggshell.
– Vitamin C deficiency – Bleeding under the nails.
– Vitamin B12 deficiency – Blue-black nails and / or with longitudinal dark bands
– Zinc deficiency – Chronic paronychia. Transverse bands De Mees
– Selenium deficiency – Nail weakness.
– Iron deficiency – Brittle nails, coilonychia and with longitudinal striations.

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