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A member asked:
I noticed a thin white line across the tips of all my nails recently. the nail seems thinner below that line. what could this be?
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Mae's Lines: During times of extreme illness - like when someone is near death & in the ICU for a week getting aggressive care - the nails may stop growing for a period of time. These are beau's lines. If you see these on someone, you know that they had been in bad shape in the past few months. Mae's lines are a lesser form of these. You have been thru a physically traumatic time that can be seen on your nails.
Answered 9/1/2015
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