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Augh, I hate you.
Well, it's happened again. My friend asked me what was wrong with her brother's toe because it's got this bright blue pigmentation in the nail that's like a bruise but a lighter blue.
Guess what I did? I searched it up on google. I put in nail disorders and got a whole bunch of nasty things.
The first that came up was an ingrown toe nail that looked like it had seen better days but the second picture to it had nails that looked like claws and something from a fantasy created monster. There were other nail disorders too though I don't find this as interesting as other things. The worst one I found was the brown nails. These nails can be caused by nicotine, potassium permanganate, nail varnish, etc. (Another reason to stop smoking) But the one that got me was of the staining due to podophyllin. Podopohyllin (or Podophyllum) is a corrosive resin chemical usually used to treat warts. It is created from mayapple roots and rhizomes and is insoluble in water. The crude form of podophyllin is very toxic and is said to have a high mutagenicity profile. In the picture after exposure, it looks like the top of the fingertip is gone and there's this white peeling thing going on. Looks kind of like a coral reef.
http://dermnetnz.org/common/image.php?path=/hair-nails-sweat/img/stain-podoph.jpg
The other one came at a close second for the most disturbing. This one was scarring due to a tumor. Kind of looked shredded and it looks like the nail bed is visible.
http://dermnetnz.org/common/image.php?path=/hair-nails-sweat/img/loss-mel.jpg
There were of course other disorders but those were the ones that disturbed the me the greatest. The pictures and some of my information came from these sites.
http://dermnetnz.org/hair-nails-sweat/nails.html
http://www.acmls.org/Dermatolog/Dermatology/22_Nail%20Disorders/P_336.htm
And in true habit, I looked up other things since I was on a roll, again. I found one nail that looked blue and I proceed to search it up under pseudomonas infection. Pseudomonas is a gram negative bacterium and prefers moist environments. It is an opportunistic pathogen and so only strikes when a person has a reduced immune system and rarely causes disease in healthy individuals. This bacterium has the ability to stick to cells, needs minimal food requirements, produces tissue damaging proteins, and is also resistant to certain antibiotics, which is scary. My search for it came up with a few images but nothing or large interest.
One really blue image I found was labelled Necrosis but when I looked it up, there wasn't much except what looked like gangrene on various body parts which is basically what it is, the death of cells or living tissue. This can be caused by many things like certain drugs, infection, cancer, etc. It was one of the characteristics of the black death.
http://www.bu.edu/cme/modules/2002/drugerup02/content/6-necro.htm
Necrosis was the last of my searches. In the end though, I don't think I found the problem with my friend's brother's toe.
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