Are you healthy?

Its so easy to be non healthy in todays life style. The problem or the difficulty is to remain healthy. Go through these simple tests to examine yourself and find out where you stand in terms of health.

1.NAIL CHECK

Your nails provide lots of instant health checks, which is one reason why doctors often start a physical examination here. The following table shows some possible nail signs and possible causes:

Nails

• Loss of usual pink nail colour: Low level of haemoglobin in the blood (anaemia) due to excessive bleeding, lack of iron, vitamin B12 or folic acid.
• Deep ridges across the nails due to a temporary lack of nail growth (Beau's lines)Physical stress, such as periods of illness or lack of zinc.
• Small, shallow pits in the nail plate. A few may be due to trauma. Lots can be a sign of psoriasis, alopecia areata or atopic eczema.
• Separation of the end of the nail from the nail bed.Can occur with psoriasis, an overactive thyroid gland or nail trauma. 
• Thin, spoon-shaped nails. Usually due to lack of iron, but is sometimes hereditary.
• White marks on the nails which can form spots, streaks or affect the whole nail: Usually due to trauma, but can be linked with low levels of albumin so fluid leaks from the circulation, compressing blood flow under the nails. 
• White nails that also feel rough suggests a fungal nail infection.
• Purple-black discoloration of nail bed: Trauma, such as hitting your hand rather than a nail, with a hammer.
• Yellow-discolouration of nails, sometimes with thickening and slow-growing nails: Nicotine staining, using nail polish without a base coat, fungal infection. Sometimes it can be linked with poor lymph drainage.
• Swelling of the fingertips beneath the nail beds: Illnesses affecting the heart or lungs.
• Long, thin, splinter-like brown streaks due to bleeding from tiny blood vessels under the nails. Although this is often occupational, it is sometimes due to tiny blood clots coming from an infection of the heart (bacterial endocarditis.
• Gross thickening of the nails, to resemble claws. Can occur in later life, especially in the big toe nail. May also be linked with trauma, psoriasis or fungal infection

2. INSIDE MOUTH CHECK

mouth

Check inside your mouth for decolourisation and ulcers. Nowadays mouth cancer accounts for five percent of all kinds of tumors  Everyone especially smokers and those above the age of 40 should mostly check for persistent white patches, ulcers or red velvety lesions that lasts longer than a couple of weeks. Lesions or ulcers on the floor of the mouth, under the tongue, crevices etc. are difficult to be spotted out. Use a dental mirror to examine these areas.

3. EYE LID CHECK

eye lid

If the inside portion of your lower eyelid seems to be unusually pale it may be because you are anaemic. It may because your diet is low on iron. You might be having heavy periods also. Also check your gums and fingernail beds for paleness.

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