What does the White dots on a finger nail mean?

I used to have these on every finger when i was a child.


Nowadays I have none, but recently i have like two white dots on my thumb nail.


Dont know if its calcium deficantcy, i dont think so, according to my diet.What does the White dots on a finger nail mean?
It is caused by a calcium defiancy.


Increasing your diet in milk, cheese, yoghurt etc will help not only your nails, but your skeleton in the future.





this is even more important now as you have suffered an extreme defiancy before, which would have already done some damage to your bones.





It can be turned around with some effort.What does the White dots on a finger nail mean?
The white dots that people sometimes get in their fingernails have a medical name:';leuconychia'; (pronounced loo-ko-nee-kee-a, also spelled leukonychia).





The white dots come about as a result of damage to the fingernail as it grows. Basically, if you hit your finger on something it can cause a deformity (often called an ';air bubble';) in the fingernail. What it really represents is an area where the material that makes up the fingernail


(called keratin) is not put together quite right (we say it is incompletely keratinized). This deformity stays in the nail until it grows out and gets cut off.





To really understand this, you need to understand how a fingernail grows. Most of your fingernail is ';dead';, like your hair. But there is a part toward the back, closer to your knuckle, and mostly under the skin, that is alive and growing (push on this part of your fingernail to see how much it hurts). This part of your fingernail is always growing and ';pushing'; on the rest of your fingernail, causing it to ';slide'; over your finger. In other words, the end of your fingernail was, at one time, way at the back end under your skin.





When you hit your finger on something, you can damage the part of your fingernail that is alive and growing. This doesn鈥檛 cause any permanent problems, but causes this white spot in your nail. The more you bump or hit your fingernail, the more white spots you will get. But whether you have one or many, they stay in your nail until it grows out.
lack of calcium in your diet.


Not enough calcium in your body, try drinking lots of milk before bed or eating dairy products through out the day like yogurt, cheese, etc... or go buy some calcium tablets from your suppermarket. it will clear in a few days then.. other wise the white spots can stay for weeks.
sometimes they're like bruises on your finger nail, only white cuz it damages the nail, kinda like if you hit it on something then it'll turn white, or sumtimes if you hit it real hard it turns blcak and blue





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i think it is from stuff like crushing your fingers. stuff not hard enough to bruise your finger but enough to leave a mark like hitting your hand on the counter top and other less notable things
i think it's calcium deficanty
lack of calcium, drink more milk yo