Why do fingernails seem to grow faster than toenails?
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Toenails' growth get stunted by our constant wearing of shoes, socks, stockings, etc.  It's even covered up with blankets and sheets when we sleep. It is therefore less exposed to sunlight and air which favor growth. Toenails are often moist with perspiration and when walking barefoot it's among the first parts of our body that gets exposed to dirt and germs. It can also be quite difficult to reach when bathing or cleaning our body parts. Because of its distance from our eyes and nose it is often left neglected.
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You're clipping your fingernails and toenails.\nThey're only going to grow back,\nAnd you'll have to get rid of them again.
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This is a common misconception.\n\nNails, hair etc do NOT continue to grow after death - it is merely the illusion of your skin contracting around the follicles etc that makes it appear so.
642674
That's so weird!  Get that checked out immediately.  I don't know if you have some sort of disease or what, but hair and nails.....GROWING?!?!?!?!  PS-why are you still reading this?  I just told you to go get that checked out immediately--not when you're done reading.
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Nail Fungus will separate and the nail will turn color.  One home remedy is to use liquid Vicks every day inside the nail and keep your nails short.  It takes months, but you have a good posibility to keep the nail.  It works with the fungus on a few toes and it is almost gone.  Toes take about 12 months for the nail to grow out and show new nail.  Fingers do not take that long.  Otherwise, a doctor can prescribe Lamasil or simular medication.
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When our son was in middle school he had the very same surgery on both toes. Three weeks later he was wearing hiking boots on a Boy Scout trek and back packing up the side of a mountain. The skin under where the toenails used to be is tender right now because it's used to being protected by the toenail, and suddenly the toenail's not there. It will take a few days for the skin to toughen up a little. It will get better rather quickly. I know it won't seem quick to you, but it will be over soon.
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I know it will take forever but if you get one of those black or grey emery boards--not the steel ones--you can file your toe nails.  Clipping them and filing them will help them to grow slower.  Also to me, the best way to clip my toe nails is to shower first and then immediately clip them afterwards.  The warm water from the shower loosens the nails making them more flexible and easier to cut.  That way you won't clip your tissue.
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Our fingernails are similar to claws or hooves found in other\nanimals. More generally called “digital appendages”, they are enlarged\nkeratinized structures (the same stuff that horns are made out of)\nthat protect the tips of the fingers and toes in most vertebrate\nspecies, or aminals with backbones. Fingernails are broad, and\nslightly curved, and mostly cover the top surface of our fingers.\n\nIn other species, this structure is slightly different - for example,\ncrocodiles have a thimble-shaped structure that covers the whole tip\nof their digits, whereas hawks and owls have talons, highly recurved\nclaws specialized for prey capture, and horses and cows have hooves\nthat protect their feet.\n\nSo, the reason we have fingernails is simply that everyone in our\nfamily tree has some sort of digital appendage that probably served to\nprotect fingertips in our distant ancestors, and each group has\nevolved modifications that best fit their needs for a particular\nenvironment. Fingernails in monkeys, apes and humans always cover only\none side of the fingertip and thus they protect but don’t limit the\nmotion or sensitivity of our fingertips."\nhttp://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/?quid=448\n\nAlso see:\n\n"Only primates evolved finger and toenails, probably to provide better\ngrip on tree trunks and branches.\n\nRoland Ennos and his team at the University of Manchester, UK,\nwondered what gave the nail its structural properties. He says, "I\nhave always been a bit of a nail-biter, and I noticed that whenever\nyou bite your nails, they never break into the quick of your skin. And\nfor a material, that's very, very unusual." So Ennos's team armed with\nspecial scissors and tweezers, tore and cut nails, and studied them\nunder a scanning electron microscope."\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18124332.600\n\nThank you for your question, and if you need any clarification of my\nanswer, do not hesitate to ask prior to rating my answer.\n\nVery best regards
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A fingernail is produced by living skin cells in the finger. A fingernail consists of several parts including the nail plate (the visible part of the nail), the nail bed (the skin beneath the nail plate), the cuticle (the tissue that overlaps the plate and rims the base of the nail), the nail folds (the skin folds that frame and support the nail on three sides), the lunula (the whitish half-moon at the base of the nail) and the matrix (the hidden part of the nail unit under the cuticle). \n\nFingernails grow from the matrix. The nails are composed largely of keratin, a hardened protein (that is also in skin and hair). As new cells grow in the matrix, the older cells are pushed out, compacted and take on the familiar flattened, hardened form of the fingernail. \n\nThe average growth rate for nails is 0.1 mm each day (or 1 centimeter in 100 days). The exact rate of nail growth depends on numerous factors including the age and sex of the individual and the time of year. Fingernails generally grow faster in young people, in males, and in the summer. \n\nFingernails grow faster than toenails. The fingernails on the right hand of a righthanded person grow faster than those on their left hand, and vice versa.
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that's kind of like asking why do we have eyebrows, or why do we have nails on our fingers and toes. It's just because we do.
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Nails grow at an average rate of 0.1 mm/day so a week would be 0.7mm
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It depends whether you've damaged the nail bed or not.\n\nNails are grown from a specialised area of skin called a nail bed. The cells gradually reproduce and dead ones get mixed with a hard protein called keratin, which makes your nail.  When you get an injury much like you've described, someimes this gets damaged. Usually it recovers, but if the cells at the nail bed have all been killed off it may not.\n\nSome people's take a month, some longer. Some take up to a year.\n\nThe vast majority do grow back but you'll just have to wait and see. If it hasn't grown back within a year, it's not going to. \n\nAnd no, I'm afraid there's nothing you can do about it. On the plus side (assuming you had no other injuries to your big toe like a broken bone), other than cosmetic issues it won't give you any long-term problems- it just looks unusual.
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Hair and nails both grow at about the rate of a quarter inch a month. Therefore six months would be about an inch as long as you don't bite or break them. For best care it's always a good idea to file nails and trim hair regularly.
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Fingernails and Toenails are made from... hair! They are there to protect the sensitive nail bed underneath them. (Ever cut your nails too short... it hurts right? That nail bed isn't being protected like it should anymore!) Also, humans are animals, whether we like it or not, and most animals have nails to help them dig! Don't forget we used to not have grocery stores and such back in the stone age!
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Sometimes it's related to nutrition, sometimes to stress (called Beau's lines, I believe), sometimes to external wear such as buffing or filing. \n\nAre your nails healthy looking or are they yellow or green? Lifting in places? These would indicate fungus.\n\nHave you changed your supplements in the past few months? \nPeople sometimes  get a ridge when  start loading on biotin after taking a break (forgetting) for a few months. Have you been buffing them lately? If you are, that would be my first guess unless they're yellow or green.\n\nOTHER CHANGES TO MAKE  HEALTHY NAILS\n\n- drink pure, clean water (6-8 glasses a day)\n- avoid drinking alcohol\n- avoid saturated fats and fried foods they stress the liver\n- eat high fiber diet (brown rice,millet , and legumes are good)\n- make sure to get vitamin A, C, and E - try a good quality multi vit/mineral supplement\n- reduced sugar, candy, etc...\n- avoid caffeine, hydrogenated oils, fried foods, meat, soft drinks\n- reduce dairy products in your diet\n- for healthy nails make sure you are getting enough protein\n- keep nails shorter \n- do not cut your cuticles
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Because your hair grows faster when you cut it.
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you cannot increase the speed to grow nails. but eat plenty of fruits and vegies.