What are these white things in my fingernails
In my fingernails, there are these white things in the...they grow with my nail, what are they
Answer:I dunno what they're called but I used to have those too, when I was a teenager. They say it's caused by a deficiency of Vitamin B complex so I took supplements and away they went.
They are called calcium spots, it is totally normal and most people have them. It is due to having to much calcium in your diet your body has to get rid of the excess calcium. It is nothing to worry about, i hope that answered you question
I don't know what they are but I think they are related to an iron deficiency or some other such deficiency. A multivitamin should clear that up but it will take a couple months.
What you've got is what's known as punctate leukonychia (medicalese for "white spots.") Extreme cases of leukonychia, in which the nails turn entirely white (leukonychia totalis) or develop white bands (striate leukonychia), can indicate anything from arsenic poisoning to leprosy. Leukonychia has also been linked to typhoid fever, frostbite, trichinosis, gout, diphtheria, cholera, acute rheumatism, myocardial infarction, colitis, and any number of other ghastly ailments.
But don't worry, you probably don't have any of them. Mere spots are extremely common and undoubtedly harmless. The folklore about them goes back for centuries; they've been called "gift spots," "fortune spots," and for some reason "sweethearts." As with many other minor medical curiosities, little research has been done on punctate leukonychia in recent years. The white color has been variously attributed to trapped air and to defective keratinization, keratinization being the process by which nails are formed. The air bubbles and/or opaque, imperfectly keratinized granules within the nail cells refract light and the spot appears white.