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White armor

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Introduction

Introduction White nails have white spots on the nails and white lines are called "white nails." Common spot leukoplakia, linear leukoplakia, often occurs in the first half of the month, with the nail growth moved to the edge of the nail, mostly primary. Divided into point white armor, linear white armor, all white nails and so on. All white hair is called all white nail disease, mostly congenital. Generally do not need medication. The nail is the external glory of the viscera and blood, and is directly related to the body's visceral meridians, which can fully reflect the physiological and pathological changes of the human body.

Cause

Cause

1. Spotted white armor: can occur in normal people, or infected by minor trauma. Spotted white armor is a dominant chromosomal inheritance.

2. Linear white armor: more than not caused by excessive or manicure.

3. All white armor: relatively rare, familial, all white armor often chromosomal inheritance.

4. Contact with nitric acid, nitrite and concentrated sodium chloride solution can cause whitening. Fungal white nails invade the toenail. When nail separation and hyperkeratosis, A is white.

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The nails are white, white or all white, and are more common in malnutrition, anemia patients, hookworm disease, gastrointestinal bleeding, advanced tuberculosis, pulmonary heart disease, cirrhosis and so on. If the nail is white, accompanied by obvious physical discomfort, it must be examined separately, including blood routine examination, parasitic examination, gastroscopy, chest X-ray examination, cardiac examination, liver function examination, B-ultrasound examination and so on.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

1. Point-like white armor: The most common type of one hundred, limited to nails, can occur in normal people, or infected by tiny trauma. Spotted white armor is a dominant chromosomal inheritance.

2. Linear white armor: linear white armor can be hereditary white armor, but also naturally occurs in other nails. It is the proximal end of the week and the trauma of the planer, especially because it is not caused by excessive or manicure. All the white lines of the rule of A appear to be characteristic of arsenic or sputum poisoning, and similar horizontal lines are also found in hydrochloric acid deficiency.