Finger nails will not become transparent, may be due to physiological conditions of thinning, brittle situation, just looks close to transparent, may be a normal phenomenon, also does not exclude and fungal infection.
1. Physiological phenomenon: if the patient has been dieting for a long time to lose weight, or combined with digestive system diseases lead to poor absorption, and cause long-term malnutrition, which may lead to brittle, thin nails, look close to the translucent state, at this time the need for a balanced nutritional diet, deal with the original disease, improve the nutritional status, can be relieved.
2. Fungal infection: when patients have fungal infection caused by onychomycosis disease, may cause patients to appear fingernail white, brittle, and some patients may appear nail plate turbidity, thickening, brittle, and even shedding phenomenon, mainly due to the skin ringworm bacteria invasion of the nail plate caused by the nail bed, need to cooperate with the doctor’s antifungal treatment.
Fingernails are normally slightly milky white, generally do not exist to become transparent, if the nails have problems, need to cooperate with the doctor to do further examination, to understand the cause and then do the treatment.