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Old 22-09-2009: 22nd September 2009 19:08 #1 
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Default Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
of fingernails.

What does this mean?

I have a bowl of cereal every day, a 200ml bottle of Yazoo and vegetables ( spinach etc)/fruit every day. So i dont see how I can have a calcium defiency-tbh I dont know anything about this.
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Default Re: Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
I call them nail bruises as I only get them when I do something that could give me a bruise.

That said... I just looked at my nails I have loads of them, except my thumbs :/
 
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Can you suggest any major sources of zinc? My appetite told me to buy bran falkes and apparently that is a good zinc source?
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Default Re: Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
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Can you suggest any major sources of zinc? My appetite told me to buy bran falkes and apparently that is a good zinc source?

Get tablets. You can get them from many highstreet shops e.g Boots, Holland & Barrett, Superdrug.
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It sounds like you have got low iron levels, so either include more iron in your diet, and if that doesn't work, go and see your GP and get your iron levels checked, they might give you some iron supplements etc. Good luck!
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Default Re: Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
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Can you suggest any major sources of zinc? My appetite told me to buy bran falkes and apparently that is a good zinc source?
Shell fish can be a good source, but be careful because of pollution.
Kidney beans, chickpeas, low fat yoghurt, calf's liver is also very high in zinc.

But, with zinc deficiency you will also have signs of hair loss, depression, loss of appetite, and a poor immune system. So, it could just be damage to the nail bed if you have no other symptoms.
 
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Default Re: Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
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Shell fish can be a good source, but be careful because of pollution.
Kidney beans, chickpeas, low fat yoghurt, calf's liver is also very high in zinc.

But, with zinc deficiency you will also have signs of hair loss, depression, loss of appetite, and a poor immune system. So, it could just be damage to the nail bed if you have no other symptoms.

i have no hair loss, dont have depression and my appetite is immense.
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Default Re: Very pale Fingernails with small white blotches and white streaks towards the tip..
 
Eat some foods that contain Zinc or take zinc/vitamin tablets and see if they clear away.
 
 
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