Nail cap loss may be caused by trauma, nutritional deficiency and onychomycosis.
1. Trauma: If the patient’s nails are bumped or squeezed, resulting in bruising and damage under the nails, it may eventually lead to the loss of nail caps.
2. Nutritional deficiencies: If the patient is often partial to food or picky about food, resulting in serious deficiencies of vitamins and nutrients, it will have an impact on the growth of the nails, which may lead to the loss of nail caps.
3. Ringworm of the nail: ringworm of the nail is an infectious disease caused by fungal infection, ringworm of the skin after entering the nail plate will release a variety of enzymes to break down the nail plate, destroy the nail plate, so that the patient appeared to the phenomenon of nail cover falling off, accompanied by cloudy nails, thickening and other symptoms.
When the phenomenon of nail cover loss, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give standardized treatment.