Causes:

Onychauxis can occur due to various reasons such as:

• • Diabetic patients.
• • Any alteration to the nail root / bed / plate.
• • Age i.e poor circulation and metabolic change.
• • Impeded blood flow in the hands and feet.
• • Psoriasis.
• • Trauma - Tight footwear.
• • Bacterial / Fungal infections.

Diagnosis:

Depending on history and investigations

• • Blood test.
• • Pull test.
• • Scalp biopsy.

Treatment:

• • Trimming the nails.
• • Recognizing the accurate cause behind the condition, like Diabetes and Psoriasis, overseeing or curing the issue can achieve a change in the nails.
• • In the event that the ailment is found to influence toenails as a consequence of wearing tight shoes, it is important to change footwear.
• • Weakened blood course in appendages could be enhanced by standard activity. Daily workouts can make heart pump more blood into all the locales of the body and realize a change in blood dissemination.
• • Avulsion of the nail plate with surgical destruction of the matrix with phenol, if the blood supply is good.