Hands can recognize many diseases, not the skin at all! Parkinson's disease, anemia, and other diseases - this is what our hands look like.

Well-groomed hands, clean nails - everyone pays attention to it. Let's agree that for women, a man with dirty nails is immediately deleted. Similarly, a woman with unattended nails loses her attractiveness at once. However, hands reveal not only age and hygiene levels. They can also suggest a medical condition.

You can recognize many diseases by the skin on your hands and the appearance of your nails, including:

  • anemia,
  • liver disease,
  • hyperthyroidism,
  • mycosis,
  • psoriasis,
  • Parkinson's disease,
  • osteoarthritis (of hands),
  • onycholysis of nails,
  • as well as vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies.

Diseases you recognize after trembling hands

Hands tremor can be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease or spontaneous hand tremor. Parkinson's disease can also be identified by other symptoms. They include: slowness of movement, muscle and joint stiffness as well as disturbances in gait and posture.

In Poland, parkinson's suffers from around 100,000 patients. Unfortunately, it is a neurodegenerative disease, meaning it destroys neurons. This damage is irreversible, the development of the disease can only be slowed down.

Anemia and mineral deficiency visible on the skin of the hand

Hand skin reveals not only age - dry, rough, with brittle nails may indicate deficiencies of various elements. If there are longitudinal stripes with grooves on the nails, they may herald anemia and iron deficiency in the body.

Brittle and brittle nails can also be a sign of low levels of zinc in the body.

Osteoarthritis

Usually, degenerative joint diseases appear after the age of 40. The characteristic symptoms are pain and stiffness in the finger joints (interphalangeal joints and the base of the thumb joint). However, the disease can be easily identified by changes in the structures of the joints - then they form degenerative nodules - the so-called Heberden and Bouchard nodules.

Liver disease in the palm of your hand!

Liver diseases do not produce any symptoms other than skin symptoms for a very long time. An example would be erythema on the skin, which is the first sign thatour liver is not working properly. Cirrhosis of the liver manifests itself on the nail plates - then the nail plate bulges and thickens. Longitudinal furrows and white discoloration of the proximal part of the plate appear.

Nails can also take on a watch shape, especially if liver problems have been going on for a long time. Liver disease provokes the formation of lumps on the hands and fingers, and even permanent fingers towards the inside of the hand.

Hyperthyroidism

An overactive thyroid can be identified bysweaty hands . This is a characteristic symptom of this disease. Brittle nails with a separating plate from the placenta and rounding upwards (the so-called Plummer's nails) may also indicate an overactive thyroid gland.

Hand skin diseases

It is obvious that all skin diseases can be seen on the skin, including the hands. These include psoriasis, mycosis, eczema, i.e. dermatitis, which manifests itself in the form of eczema, as well as contact dermatitis.

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