HOLES, GROOVES, OR RIDGES IN TOENAILS COULD BE PSORIASIS STATES MD PODIATRIST

posted: Feb. 04, 2018.

 

 

 

 

If you find tiny holes, grooves, or ridges in your toenails, you may have nail psoriasis. Though most people who experience nail psoriasis also have skin psoriasis (an autoimmune disease that makes skin patchy and irritated), 5 percent of people with nail psoriasis aren’t affected elsewhere. “If you’ve never been diagnosed with psoriasis, but your toenails have little pits in them, you should get them checked out,” says Gary A. Pichney, DPM, a podiatric surgeon of The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center. 

 

Dr. Gary Pichney

 

 

Other symptoms include white patches and horizontal lines across the nails. To treat psoriasis, your doctor may prescribe topical creams or steroids to be injected under the nail. 

 

Source: Kelsey Kloss, Reader's Digest [8/23/17]

 

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News,

 

Brought to you by Doctor John A. Hardy, owner of Toronto's Foot Clinic, Academy Foot and Orthotic Clinics.