Nails

Audio 48:30

The appearance of our nails, colors, spots, streaks, etc.

can be a sign of illness or nutritional deficiency.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

50 min

Essentially made up of keratin, the nail is the hard, numb part of the finger or toe.

Useful for protecting the fingertips from external aggressions, the nails also provide a reliable indicator of our state of health.

The appearance of our nails, colors, spots, streaks, etc.

can be a sign of illness or nutritional deficiency.

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• Dr Sophie Goettmann

  , dermatologist and surgeon specializing in nail pathologies, author of

  Your nails, a whole world

  , published by Actes Sud.

• Dr Berline Sigha,

  Venereologist dermatologist at Laquinitinie hospital in Douala, Cameroon.

  Deputy Secretary of Socaderm (Cameroonian Society of Dermatology)

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