Will manicure damage nails? What harm will manicure cause to the body?

Many young people like manicures nowadays, but there is a lot of controversy about whether manicures are harmful to the body. Will manicures cause harm to the body? Will manicures damage the nails?

Manicure is harmful to nails. Although the technology of manicure has improved over time, the base glue and nail polish used in the process of manicure will cause a certain degree of corrosion to the real nails. Although the degree of corrosion is small, it does not mean that there is no damage to the nails. Especially for a long time, the real nails cannot breathe freely, the surface of the nails will become dry and rough, and the nails will become more and more fragile. The thickness of the nails becomes thinner and thinner, and in severe cases, it will cause inflammation of the skin around the nails.

1. Prone to chronic poisoning

Nail polish contains a lot of chemical ingredients, especially phthalates, which have a softening effect, but they can enter the body through the skin or breathing. Large-scale use may cause chronic poisoning. Some unscrupulous merchants choose inferior nail polishes to reduce costs, which may contain pigments or harmful fluorescent agents that are banned by the country. In addition, long-term use of nail polish containing excessive heavy metals may also cause chronic poisoning.

2. Paronychia infection

When doing manicures, you need to remove the cuticles and rub the nails, which will cause great damage to the nails. Frequent manicures will make the nails thicker and darker. Some women will cover them up by applying nail polish, which enters a vicious cycle and eventually causes redness, swelling and pus around the nails. Because the nail matrix cannot be better protected after the cuticles are removed, the subcutaneous tissue will swell, ache and become red. When a serious infection occurs, it will quickly fester, forming paronychia. In addition, there is a layer of substance on the surface of the nail that can protect the nail. When the surface of the nail is poked many times, its protective effect will be weakened, making it easy for pathogens to take advantage of the opportunity.

3. It is easy to cause hepatitis or tinea manuum

Most nail salons use unclean supplies, and do not carefully disinfect the scissors, towels or tweezers they use, or the hygiene is not up to standard, which can easily lead to infection with hepatitis, tinea manuum or paronychia, etc. In addition, some substances contained in nail polish may cause miscarriage or fetal malformation in pregnant women, especially phthalates, which are colorless and odorless liquids with high volatility. They will enter the body through the respiratory and digestive tracts, thereby absorbing dust in the fat tissue and are not easily excreted from the body. If the concentration remaining in the body is too high, it will cause damage to the reproductive system endocrine system, cardiovascular system and liver.

General manicure only acts on the surface of the nails, and there is no possibility of infection. However, patients need to prevent fungi from invading the inside of the nails during the manicure process. Patients with onychomycosis are not recommended to undergo manicures. Onychomycosis usually takes a long time to treat, and if patients undergo manicures, the treatment time may increase. Patients should pay more attention to the cleaning of the nail part, which can effectively prevent onychomycosis.

After doing manicure, especially thick phototherapy nails, the hardness of the nails will increase, which is a kind of protection for the nail bed and creates conditions for the growth of the nail bed, so the nail bed will grow naturally.