Hollow toenail cover may be caused by nail trauma or fungal infection.
Toenail is squeezed or stepped on and other trauma and other reasons, the nail bed underneath the nail will be atrophied due to trauma, causing the toenail cover to become empty or fall off, but generally with the growth of nails, the nail bed can be gradually restored to normal.
Patients with diabetes, impaired immune system, nail trauma or other nail diseases, due to tinea versicolor can be directly infected, susceptible to skin fungal infections, nail fungal disease, patients appear nail discoloration, separation, atrophy or loss and other changes, patients have the entire nail plate destruction, thickening, nail hollow, nail plate can appear partially or completely fall off.
Nail discoloration, shedding or empty and other symptoms can be timely to the hospital specialist consultation, identify the cause of the disease and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.