Onychatrophia

Onychatrophia is very common nail diorder. Onychatrophia is an atrophy or wasting away of the nail plate which causes it to lose its luster, become smaller and sometimes shed entirely. Injury or disease may account for this irregularity.

Onychatrophia Symptoms

Here are the list of symptoms of Onychatrophia

skin lesion located in the skin around the nail, often at the cuticle or at the site of a hangnail or other injury

painful

onset sudden (bacterial) or gradual (fungal, mixed infection)

may persist (fungal, mixed infection)

may be acute or chronic

redness, localized

swelling , localized

pus-filled blisters (especially with bacterial infection)

swelling of the finger or the cuticle

nail changes

discoloration

distorted shape

detached