What are the white little marks on the finger nails?

Calcium marks.


They mean you are not eating enough calcium so your nails grow weak. Try drinking a glass of milk everyday to help make them less noticeable until they go away. :]What are the white little marks on the finger nails?
I was always told they were marks for every time you tell a lie.


Seriously, This is the most common form of Leukonychia, small white spots on the nails. Picking and biting of the nails are a prominent cause in young children and nail biters. In most cases, when white spots appear on a single or a couple of fingers or toes, the most common cause is injury to the base (matrix) of the nail. When this is the case, white spots disappear after around eight months, which is the amount of time necessary for nails to regrow completely.





White spots showing up on all or nearly all nails for longer periods of time (months and years) can be due to one of several reasons. One common explanation is zinc deficiency.What are the white little marks on the finger nails?
Medically speaking, those little white marks that sometimes appear as dots or lines on the fingernail are known as leukonychia. There are several possible causes for the discoloration, but the most common are mild trauma, a fungal infection, skin conditions, or nutritional deficiencies.


They are probably just ';bruises'; or injuries from hitting it on something.
bruises. when you hit your nail hard, like hard enough to bruise your skin, the layers in your nail kinda un-laminate and they don't reflect light as well. they stay on your nail for a long time cuz they only grow like 1 1/2 inch a year. do the math, find how fast they grow a day! so, since the nail doesn't ';re-laminate';, so the mark stays on the nail until that part of the nail grows out. hth
I think it's because of not having enough calcium in your diet, so you probably should drink at least a glass of milk a day if you want nice, strong nails.
either from ::


*bruises,


*lack of some vitamin or CALCIUM in your diet


*or left over nail polish? :]
they could be a fungus but most commonly they are caused by a vitamin deficiency
I have them and the doc said I needed to take in more foods and drinks with calcium
I believe they are caused by lack of milk/dairy in your diet.
You need to eat your veggies.
lack of vitamin c, milk and dairy products in your diet
u need more calcium