Transverse grooves on the toenails (Beau Reil)

02/28/2020 Nowadays, almost all girls pay attention to the condition of their natural manicure, visit a nail service specialist to properly treat their hands, but the salon procedure does not always lead to a positive result. Because of this, the nail plate is deformed and has to be restored.

Grooved nails are quite common, since the appearance of unevenness on the nail bed is possible due to many factors, so if a defect appears, it is recommended to consult a doctor.

Causes of ribbed nails

Girls often neglect the health of a natural manicure or pedicure, especially when minor cosmetic defects appear - for example, when grooves appear on the nails of the hands, which do not cause discomfort or pain.

If you have ridged fingernails, the reasons may vary for women. They are divided into two types: internal and external. The former imply the presence of pathologies and problems with a woman’s health, while the latter are associated with the aggressive influence of external factors.

There are two types of grooves that appear on the nails - longitudinal and transverse. Longitudinal grooves on the nails can appear even on a healthy plate due to exposure to the external environment or a lack of vitamins in the structure, but transverse grooves on the nails are more dangerous. They usually appear due to the presence of serious pathologies, so treatment should be started immediately.

There are three main reasons why fingernails are ridged:

Mechanical damage to the nail bed;
Problems in the girl’s body;
Organ dysfunctions, pathologies.

All factors must be taken into account, since their complex effect on a natural manicure can lead to its total deterioration and gradual destruction.

Mechanical damage

Ribbed nails are most often due to the fact that a woman handles them carelessly. Trauma of any type leads to partial deformation of the nail plate, which is why, after it is received, the emergence of a similar structure can be foreseen.

Damage can be of several types:

Pinching.
Injury.
Burn.
Breakage of bone tissue.
Fungal infection.

Fungus is one of the common reasons why nails become ribbed. This is due to the fact that the infection is accompanied by many other signs of symptoms: the surface becomes dull, rough, irregularities appear, the bed thickens, dark or light spots form.

You can also damage your finger when performing a manicure at home or in a salon due to careless use of sharp tools.

With severe trauma, transverse grooves can form, which can lead to a strong crack and division of the nail into two parts.

Malfunctions of the body

Since there are nerve endings in the fingertips, this area is directly related to the health of the girl’s body, so any failures and disturbances are accompanied by damage to the natural manicure.

Problems can be different:

Circulatory disorders.
Decreased general or local immunity.
Lack of microelements and vitamins in the blood and matrix.
Hormonal imbalances (for example, during menstruation, pregnancy or lactation).
Infectious diseases accompanied by inflammatory processes.
Long-term use of medications and antibiotics.

Intoxication of the body with drugs is quite common, so after suffering a serious illness, a girl’s immune system decreases, which causes problems with nails.

Diseases

Especially illnesses or serious pathologies in a woman’s health can lead to a ribbed plate structure.

Dysfunctions of organs and systems in the body affect the deterioration of general health, which is why in order to restore the ribbed structure of the nail bed, health problems must first be eliminated.

Most often, damage occurs due to factors:

Diabetes.
Disturbances in the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
Thyroid dysfunction.
Problems with the endocrine system.
Lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, digestion.
Helminthiasis.
Psoriasis.

To find out if there are any problems with your health, you need to see a doctor and take the prescribed tests. This is the only way you can completely eliminate the risk of negative consequences.

Why do grooves appear on nails and what are their types?

The grooves on the nail plate can be longitudinal or transverse. Their occurrence is influenced by many factors, including heredity, bad habits, and ecology. If grooves appear, there is no need to hide your nails under a thick layer of varnish, because in this way you can only mask the problem and not solve it. Defects will not go away on their own. If furrows appear, you should immediately consult a specialist, because this may indicate serious health problems.

The only exception is the occurrence of plate defects in old age. After all, the natural aging processes on nails mainly manifest themselves in this way, and this is not surprising.

The reason may also lie in a poorly performed manicure. This happens when a complication occurs in the form of an abscess, in which the nail plate is destroyed.

In addition, the cause of the appearance of furrows can be traumatic damage to the cuticle or matrix. Over time, this leads to the appearance of defects in the nail plate, because this is the base of the nail, where cell formation occurs. In this case, the flaw persists for several months and gradually disappears over time along with the regrowth of the plate. And with severe damage, the defect can remain for life, since the nail in this place becomes more fragile, thin and brittle. No treatment methods will help eliminate the problem.

How to deal with the defect using home remedies

If the cause of vertical deformation is not a disease or infection, you can try to cope with traditional methods. For example, make a sage bath for ten days. The recipe is this: steam a couple of tablespoons of dry sage in a glass of boiling water, let it stand for a couple of hours. After straining, pour a glass of warm olive oil into the infusion, add three tablespoons of honey and the juice of half a lemon.

Such nail baths can be made with other medicinal herbs, with the addition of glycerin, soda or essential oils - they will help weakened nails quickly recover. If you have a shortage of free time, you can even just wipe your nails with lemon juice.

Of course, one cannot fail to mention the massage of the nail plate and the skin around it. You can do it at any time. Before the procedure, you need to steam your hands in water with the addition of a small amount of sea salt. Dry your hands with a towel and apply fruit or flower essential oil to your hands.

Massaging movements should be neat and gentle. It is enough to spend just ten minutes a day on it, repeating it a couple of times a week.

Within a month you will see that your nails begin to look more beautiful and healthier. In addition, hand massage with essential oil is a great way to calm down and relax, which is also very beneficial.

Treatment of ridged nails

To prevent the progression of the defect, its treatment must begin immediately. To do this, it is first recommended to consult a doctor so that he can examine the condition of your manicure and prescribe a competent restoration plan.

If the cause of the ribbed surface is the presence of diseases or malfunctions in the girl’s body, they must first be eliminated. To do this, the patient is redirected to a more specialized specialist who prescribes treatment, including the use of medications and restorative procedures.

To eliminate a cosmetic defect, it is enough to follow complex therapy aimed at increasing local immunity. This therapy includes two points:

Nutrition of the matrix (root) with vitamins and microelements to increase metabolism;
Using folk recipes for additional care for the entire surface of the hands or feet.

As a standard, doctors also prescribe this treatment, since it is absolutely safe for the girl and will quickly lead to a positive outcome.

Vitamins and microelements

Since the appearance of a ribbed surface of the nails in the absence of problems with the girl’s health is most often associated with low local immunity, the girl’s main goal is to restore it. To do this, it is recommended to use compositions with microelements, which will gradually be absorbed into the structure of the nail and pass to the matrix.

Vitamin deficiency is also a common cause of ribbing, which is why doctors often prescribe vitamin complexes for manicure rehabilitation.

To eliminate ribbed nails, several vitamins are prescribed:

Vitamin A;
B vitamins;
Vitamin E;
Calcium.

Medicinal compositions containing microelements can be used orally or applied to the ribbed surface of the nail, further distributing it over the cuticle area.

For external use, you need to buy vitamins in ampoules; they are sold in this form in pharmacies. The solution can be spread over the injured area with your finger or brush. You can also replace regular vitamins with special medicinal varnishes, the effect of which is to act on the affected area.

Folk remedies

To speed up the healing of the nail and eliminate its deformed coating, it is recommended to use folk recipes that contain only natural ingredients. This is to make manipulations absolutely safe for girls; health restrictions are not prescribed for them as a standard.

There are several recipes that are often prescribed to girls:

Salt bath. Dissolve 2 tablespoons of sea salt and 5-6 drops of essential oil in one liter of warm boiled water. Hands should be immersed in the liquid for 25 minutes, and then dried with paper towels without rinsing.
Compress with aloe. Mix onion pulp, aloe leaf juice, lemon juice in equal proportions and apply to a cotton pad, fixing it on the nail for half an hour.
Protein lotion. Separate the white from the yolk into a glass and gradually add medical alcohol until white clots begin to form. After this, strain the solution, saturate the gauze with it and apply it to the ribbed coating until dry.
Treatment with iodine or lemon juice. To disinfect the sensitive area, it is recommended to wipe your nails daily with a natural antiseptic.

If you follow the recommendations daily, you will speed up the recovery period for your natural manicure.

Beau Reil's furrows manicure dystrophy

Causes of transverse stripes on nails

There are many diseases that lead to damage to the nails, as well as to the destruction of their structure, so it is worth knowing the “enemy” by sight. One of these defects is Beau-Reil's grooves - transverse stripes that suddenly appear on the nail plates, spoiling their appearance.

Beau-Reil's furrows, the treatment of which is necessary, appear on the plate as a result of disorders affecting the growth of the nails, and the most common causes are endocrine diseases. Naturally, the stripes themselves are not a pathology - they are just a cosmetic defect, a sign of a fairly serious illness associated with metabolic processes. However, often such deformations of the nail plate occur as a result of mechanical injury to the phalanx or an unsuccessful manicure.

Outwardly, it is easy to distinguish the groove from other defects, since it looks like an arc and runs across the entire width of the plate from one side roller to the other. If the groove is deep enough, there may be a kind of ridge on its back edge, a horny growth caused by deformation of the nail. The depth of the furrow sometimes reaches one millimeter, but the shade of the plate remains even and there are no color changes. A deep Beau-Reil groove can divide the nail into two parts, while the upper part gradually dies and falls off, as it is deprived of the necessary nutrition. There is not necessarily one groove on the plate; depending on the severity of the underlying disease, several stripes of varying depths may appear. It often happens that an exacerbation of a chronic pathology leads to the formation of new stripes, so the Beau-Reil furrows make it possible to visually find out how the disease progresses.

By the way, such a defect does not necessarily occur in an adult; transverse stripes are often present on the tiny nails of newborns, and the reason for their appearance is the passage of the baby through the birth canal. In children, a similar defect appears most often, accompanying most infectious processes, especially if the inflamed area is in close proximity to the phalanx of the finger. In adults, the causes of defects are myocardial infarction, damage to the cuticle due to unprofessional manicure, stressful situations, and food poisoning. An interesting fact is that Beau-Reil's grooves can appear in people prone to mental illness and emotionally unbalanced.

Treatment of the defect must be carried out simultaneously with the search and treatment of the cause, otherwise any measures aimed at eliminating the grooves will give only a momentary effect. Of course, therapy for the underlying disease should remove the unpleasant symptom, but subsequently you should pay more attention to your own health. For example, you should not visit a manicurist, due to whose negligence the nail has been “decorated” with a groove, avoid stress, and treat existing health problems.

Already existing Beau-Reil grooves do not require any special approach; as the plate grows, the stripes will disappear on their own. However, even a single appearance of a defect should be an alarming signal, notifying you of the need to undergo a thorough diagnosis and identify a disease that spoils the appearance of the nail, and therefore affects the entire body as a whole.

Beau-Reil's furrows are a sign that a malfunction has occurred in the body and every possible effort must be made to determine the source of the problem and begin to eliminate it. Then the cosmetic symptom will become the only and last manifestation of the pathology and you will never have to correct the acquired defect again.

Description of the problem

Pronounced nail protrusion usually does not cause concern for people. However, in order to avoid aggravating possible complications, it is better to take care of solving this problem in advance. If the nail bed does not have a uniform, smooth surface,

and dotted with vertical or horizontal stripes, layers or cracks - this is the ribbing of the nails

Vertical ribbing
- a groove
extends from the base of the nail bed to the free edge
. It can be in the form of a dense structure or several rare grooves. The stripes may have the appearance of a bend, distortion of the smooth surface of the nail, have a clearly defined fracture structure or layering of keratinized nail matter.
Horizontal ribbing
-

pits and grooves run from the side to the center of They can be intermittent, semicircular, thin or clear. The stripes can end in the middle of the nail plane, or they can cross it completely.

If your nail plate does not have a smooth surface, then be sure to pay attention to the nature of the irregularities, study the structure to correctly assess the problem, and take steps to correct the situation.

Treatment of Beau lines on nails

Bo's superficial grooves do not require special therapy. If you do not injure the growth area of the nail plate, a healthy nail will grow over time and the linear depressions on its surface will disappear. Regular procedures of medical hardware manicure and pedicure with careful cleaning of the nail plate and its treatment with strengthening agents help solve the problem. It is also important to balance your diet, and in case of identified deficiency of vitamins and microelements, take multivitamin complexes.

Multiple and deep lines indicate severe metabolic disorders in the body. In this case, a comprehensive examination and treatment of the patient is carried out with the involvement of specialists competent in the treatment of the underlying pathology.

Important! Beau's lines are a podological pathology and when they appear, you should contact a podologist, not a dermatologist. Only podiatry methods can solve the problem and achieve complete restoration of the structure and shape of the nails.

Nail prosthetics at the Podology clinic

Prosthetic nail plates are one of the methods of combating Beau's lines, which is successfully used in our clinic. Nail restoration is performed in several ways:

Light-curing gel "Gevol"
- the drug is applied in several layers, then hardens under the influence of ultraviolet radiation. The gel contains antifungal and antimicrobial components, has three colors and allows you to color the prosthetic nail plate.
Two-component polymer "Unigzan"
- used for splitting and thickening of the nail. The finished acrylate is applied to the affected area of the nail plate, modeled according to the shape and size of the patient’s nail, then polished.
The finished mass “Gevol”
- the product is applied in layers until the normal thickness of the nail is restored, then it is sanded and polished. The finished mass contains natural copolin, which is highly breathable, and is impregnated with an antiseptic composition to protect the nail plate from fungus and microbes.
Prosthetics using the “Arcade” method
.

Are Beau lines appearing on your nails? Don’t cover them with gel polish, contact the Podology clinic and restore the beauty of your nails!