Transverse Ridges

Sometimes a person develops a transverse depression and a ridge on the nail-plate which extends from one side of the nail-plate to the other. The depression is caused by a temporary arrest or slowing down of the formation of the nail-plate while the ridge is caused be a re-acceleration of the process. The transverse ridge is called a 'Beau's line' and is produced if a disease process involves the nail-matrix. If the disease process is local and involves only a few fingers, the Beau's lines are produced only in the corresponding finger-nails.

In Transverse Ridges case however, the patient has suffered from a severe general illness, the Beau's lines may appear on all the nails at almost the same time. Beau's lines are of no consequence except that they indicate that the person has suffered from a severe illness in the past when the lines involve all the nails; and from a local illness if Beau's lines are present in a few nails only. Patients having recurrent severe illnesses are likely to show multiple Beau's lines following one after the other. Beau's lines do not require any treatment; in due course, the Beau's lines reach the distal end of the plate and get cut off.

Nails Care

Anychia
Clawing of the Nails
Clubbing
Discoloration of the Nail Plate
Ingrowing Toe Nail
Koilonychia
Longitudinal Striations
Loss of Nail Plate
Onycholysis
Paronychia
Pitting of Nail Plates
Pterygium
Thickening of Nail Plate
Transverse Ridges

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