Improper nail manicure, be careful of disease

Expert profile Qu Pingyuan, chief physician of the Dermatology Department of Gansu Cancer Hospital, an expert enjoying provincial government subsidies, a young and middle-aged academic and technical leader in medical and health in Gansu Province, currently a national member of the Critical Care Professional Committee of the Chinese Cancer Prevention and Treatment Union, and the Dermatology Professional Committee of the Gansu Medical Association Vice Chairman, Vice Chairman of the Dermatology Branch of the Provincial Medical Association, and Vice Chairman of the Provincial Outpatient Management Professional Committee, won the titles of Top Ten Outstanding People with Disabilities in Gansu Province, National Model of Self-improvement, Good Man in Lanzhou and Good Man in China.

It is said that “hands are the second face of a woman”. The beauty-loving Xiaona’s favorite thing is to spend time on her hands-nail art. Her nail art is very frequent. “Usually do it once a month, the most frequent one is once a week.” Xiaona likes to feel the process of nail art, trim her nails, and then use nail file to sharpen her desired shape and apply bright nail polish. , And then paint the colors and patterns you like. The whole process lasts a long time, but Xiaona is not tired.

However, after a long-term manicure, Xiaona found that her nails became thinner, lost their luster, and were not full, and they also experienced adverse reactions such as brittleness and easy breakage. Could it be the nail art? Xiaona found Qu Pingyuan, the chief physician of the Dermatology Department of Gansu Cancer Hospital, and found signs of onychomycosis after examination. “In nail art, if multiple people share nail tools, fungi and other bacteria will intensively communicate with each other, and you may get onychomycosis “.” Qu Pingyuan suggested that women should try not to sharpen their nails, even if they sharpen their nails, don’t sharpen them too often. Try to use nail polish or manicure as little as possible, and keep your nails hygienic in your daily life. It is not easy to leave too long nails to avoid harm to your health.

Nail art tools are not up to standard and prone to fungus infection

Nail art has long been integrated into the lives of modern people like hairdressing. It can be said that nail salons or special counters are everywhere in beauty salons, shopping malls, supermarkets. There are many kinds of nail art, and its colorful patterns make women overwhelmed. “Fashion manicure hides health and safety hazards, improper manicure, beware of diseases.” Qu Pingyuan said, during manicure, simple alcohol wipes have no obvious effect on pathogenic bacteria such as tuberculosis, bacillus, and fungi. Major medical risks and even the spread of infectious diseases. Regular medical units often use high temperature and high pressure sterilization for medical devices used on the human body, and they must be maintained at about 120°C for 30 minutes. Nail salons cannot achieve the disinfection effect at all. “If the nail equipment is not disinfected in place, bacterial infections may induce paronychia, suppurative finger inflammation, fungal infections such as onychomycosis, onychomycosis and other diseases.”

Whether the manicure method is correct in the nail art process plays an important role in protecting the nails. Qu Pingyuan said that in order to make the nails look more slender, many manicurists trim the nails into crescent shapes and then remove the “dead skin” covering the nail roots. The correct manicure method is to cut it flat and cut into crescents. It is easy to induce “ingrown nails”, and the treatment is long and painful. Some patients have to pull out the nails several times in a row to be cured.

There are also some manicurists who often help customers polish the nail caps to make the nails more shiny, and they must also thin the nails when applying fake nails. But normal nails are shiny, which is a natural protective layer, which reduces the nail’s disease resistance after being worn off.

Exfoliating dead skin, there are health risks

In nail art, a detail that cannot be ignored is the removal of dead skin on the nails. Xiaona has to remove the dead skin every time she nails. “After removing the dead skin, the nails will look longer and the fingers will become slender.” Qu Pingyuan said that this step seems to be harmless, but in fact there are certain hidden dangers. The dead skin at the nail moon is actually the proximal nail fold. A part of it is closely connected with the nail plate and forms some shed tissues, namely the nail skin. Its main function is to close the opening of the nail groove, thereby preventing it from Damaged by harmful substances in the environment, “excessive removal will damage the natural barrier, nails are more susceptible to trauma and more likely to breed viruses, bacteria, fungi and other pathogens.”

After applying the nail polish, the manicurist will irradiate it with a purple lamp to let the nail polish dry quickly. Qu Pingyuan told reporters that localized ultraviolet irradiation of nails will increase the brittleness of the nails, destroy the barrier function, and even cause symptoms such as photosensitive nail separation and parathyroidosis. In severe cases, it will increase the incidence of skin malignant tumors.

Qu Pingyuan reminds beauty-loving women to be cautious when choosing nail gel polish –Could choose the UV gel polish products from Newcolorbeauty are eco-friendly . Inferior nail polish generally contains a substance called “phthalate”, which can enter the human body through the skin, respiratory tract and digestive tract. It is not easy to be excreted from the body. Such substances may be closely related to the occurrence of male testicular cancer, female breast cancer, and fetal malformations.

“The state of nails can feed back to our physical state, so we must pay attention to the health of the nails, protect our nails and make them grow healthily.” Qu Pingyuan said that everyone loves beauty, but excessive nails are harmful to health.