Empty nails may be caused by nail fungal disease, trauma, or due to nail malnutrition and exposure to irritants.
1. Nail fungus disease: If you suffer from nail fungus disease, the fungus invades the nail plate or underneath the nail, which may lead to the separation of the nail and the nail bed, triggering empty nails. Nail fungus disease may cause empty nails along with yellowing, whitening, thickening and brittleness of the nails.
2. Trauma: Empty nails can be caused by trauma to the nail area, such as burns and crushing injuries. Among them, burns may cause scarring of the skin around the nails, making the nails leave their original position, resulting in separation of the nail bed from the nails; extrusion injuries can change the morphology and structure of the nails to a certain extent, making them separate from the nail bed.
3. Nail malnutrition: A lack of protein, calcium, iron and other nutrients in the body can lead to nail malnutrition, which changes the shape of the nail and prevents it from adhering to the nail bed, thus leading to empty nails.
4. Exposure to irritants: If the fingers are exposed to irritants for a long time in daily life, the distal nails may be separated from the nail bed, thus causing empty nails.
If you have empty nails, you can go to the hospital for examination to clarify the cause of the disease and carry out targeted treatment as soon as possible to prevent the symptoms from worsening and causing other hand or foot problems.