• aubertlone@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You gave me fairly panic with that nail lines constant and I just had to go look it up.

    No, nails having lines going down them is not necessarily a sign of vitamin deficiency. Turns out that the majority of the time it’s completely harmless and a sign of aging. Both index fingers and my right middle finger have a very faint dark line going from cuticle tip.

    Your mileage may vary, IDK about your personal diet etc. just wanted to chime in about the nails thing

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      13 hours ago

      Dark lines going down on nails could also be a sign of subungual melanoma, so you might want to check for that.

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      23 hours ago

      Interesting. Thanks and sorry for scaring you.

      I would note that mine are on a single nail and less lines and more defined ridges where you can run another nail over and feel it bumping across.

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        14 hours ago

        No need to apologize!!

        I thrive on neurotic energy??

        Well I’m always looking up things that were in so knowledge is power and all that

    • tomenzgg@midwest.social
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      1 day ago

      Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.