Why do I have white spots on my nails?

White spots on Nails (leukonychia)

I have mostly personally observed some spots on various persons hands. I explain about my own nail, sometime when I over exercised or taking fasting I see white spot appear on my nail. After having balance food, it is disappeared gradually. I quote

White spots appeared on my vinyl... won't take paint

Does anybody know what the heck is going on here? I've never seen anything like this before. They disappear when i dab them with paint but as soon as they flash off they are right back again. I painted over heat set matte varnish (a super thin layer)

Skin: white teardrop spots

I read recently somewhere that small white spots the size of a teardrop on the skin were due to some kind of deficiency. What deficiency? How long to disappear?

White spots on my arms

I have developed white spots on my arms they range from the size of a pin head to a 10 c piece. I noticed that my mum got them after her op too. Has anyone else got them too? Does anyone know what they are? I was wondering if they are from a vitamin

Gunk under nails (scalp problems... The usual :( )

I stopped using oils and butters in my hair entirely. When using them it made my hair hard, brittle and my scalp was always dry and flaking. I decided to go back to curl activator because it worked for me. My hair seems to love a lot of glycerin. I'm on a

Fordyce spots on Foreskin

Hey everyone, I'm 24 and have had sebaceous prominence/fordyce spots for almost 10 years now. They started on the underside of the shaft and have progressively increased in number, and now cover almost the whole shaft. I've learned to live with them

Medscape's Slideshows Top 10 for 2010 - Diseases of the Nails!

"Diseases of the nails can result in significant social, psychological, and physical damages. Can you match the nail to the disease?" Last week Medscape presented a Top 10 of popular Slideshows presented in 2010: One of the listed

Why do we have fordyce spots

I have noticed that very small hairs are growing out of my penis shaft and am now wondering if this condition really is caused my enlarged sebaceous glands. Do anyone know for a fact what those spots on our dicks are? Is it enlarged sebaceous glands, hair

Nails -Character and Health

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33975451/Nails-Character-and-Health-60510 The correlation between hands and encephalograph readings (graphicalrecord of electrical activity of the brain; produced by anelectroencephalograph ) was published in 1951. Dr. Doust o

WHAT IS THE DIAGNOSIS? - A weird white spot combined with joint pain & fever

A 48-year-old man presents with a 10-day history of fever, hand pain, watery diarrhea, weight loss, anorexia, and intermittent vomiting. Two nodules (white spots) are noted on both thumbs of his hands. What is the diagnosis? SHORT ANSWER:

SisterBoyd

This coming March will mark 2 years of being natural and heat free. The only heat that I've used on my hair has been on an aphrogee and yes I was scared then ha ha ha! My curls have come a very long way... I was a faithful presser and I had a very

Medical incompetence and negligence

There, he was told he had not had a heart attack; instead, it was simply a very bad case of food poisoning. 'I was left on a trolley for a few hours while they took some blood and at about 1am I was sent home in a taxi. I was still in agony every time

Okay, it's been long enough. It's working.

So guys, I have been using this method for around a month and a half now. It's very simple actually. I use a combination of two treatments. The spots are pretty much invisible and every time I do the OCM more "stuff" comes out. Here's how to