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Toenails keep splitting and breaking. how do i strengthen this?
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Splitting: This can be as simple as vitamin deficiency or fungus infection and as elaborate as metabolic problems and or disease states . See your podiatrist for an exam who will work with your family doc
Answered 1/2/2014
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