What happens if your nails get too long

The study also suggested that most people do not wash their hands well enough to get rid of all the germs under their nails. According to Dr. Carol A. Kauffman, co-author of the study, people should spend at least 15 seconds washing their hands and clean underneath their nails to get rid of the unseen germs. Your hands come in contact with hundreds of objects every day, and you use them for activities like cooking and eating. All Rights Reserved.

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Joey Cramer starred in the '80s Disney classic. Smarter Living. Christina estimates that it'd take about six months to a year of toenails neglect for your negligence to finally catch up with you. Assuming your nails are relatively healthy, just the act of walking will probably be enough to break them on your own. There mere act of existence seems to be enough to keep your nails in check if they're healthy.

But if they have a deformation or fungal infection, well, then things start to get ugly. These sorts of issues will cause the nail to grow thicker the longer it gets, which, as you can guess, will make it more resistant to breaking. What happens as they nails continue to grow depends on your footwear choice. If you're wearing open-toed shoes and you're not doing a lot of walking, Dr.

Christina estimates they'd probably grow nice and straight for a good inch-and-half to two inches, after which they'd start to naturally curl. If you're wearing shoes and walking a lot the pressure exerted on the nail will probably cause it to curl sooner. At this point the image of a long, thick yellow toenails would be the least of your concern.

As anyone who's studies simple machines can guess, pushing down on one end of a lever will cause the other to rise. Instead of just part of the nail breaking off, you now risk just tearing a toenail off wholesale, or damaging it to the point that it'll eventually just fall off. So, if you sat down and never got up from your seat , then yes, your nails would probably grow into yellowing, gnarled claws.

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