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Health
To make a toenail dead skin cells are packed tightly together by specialized cells at the root of the nail. As more and more dead cells are added at the root, those that have already been piled up are pushed outward, toward the tip of the finger or toe. This produces a very hard plate to protect the tips of the fingers and toes - a plate that has no sensitive nerve endings, no blood supply, and no immunity to infection. It is essentially dead tissue.
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The same features, unfortunately, make nail susceptible to colonization by certain fungi that can thrive off the keratin in the packed skin cells. Once a fungus gets well established, it appears to make the toenail dead indeed - the nail typically turns yellow, brown, or black, gets very thick, and starts to simply crumble away like rotten wood. What is happening is that the fungus is working its way between the packed layers of cells, separating them and breaking down the keratin, the substance that makes nails so hard.
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