To some, keeping long fingernails might be fun and a fashionable trend, but you should bear it in mind that it also has its own health risk, which you seriously need to look into if you really care for your nails and for your general health. Having long nails tends to create a breeding atmosphere for germs, which from there onwards without much stress can be transferred into your body or unto others. If you ask health experts around, they will agree that nails should be trimmed and not kept long as they house germs.
Although keeping
of long nails have always been linked to ladies and beauty freaks, anyone
keeping nails whose height is over three millimetres above the finger tips should
note that the nails contains harmful bacteria underneath. Some individuals do
not wash theirhands well enough to get rid of all
the germs beneath their nails, making keeping of long nails unhealthy.
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You should stop keeping long nails because during the course of the day, you come across several objects that contains harmful bacteria and will definitely stay glued to your long nails. Therefore, it is essential for you to wash not just your hands, but also your nails thoroughly.
If you are
keeping long nails, you are at a high risk to injure yourself because when your
nails are eventually caught in windows, zippers or any of these types of
objects, you stand a risk of injuring yourself and injuries are potential
breeding ground for germs and entrance pathway into your body.
If you are a
typist, who always plays with the computer keyboard, should not think that
keeping long nails is proper because it is going to make things complicated for
you, straining your fingers. Not only typing on your computer keyboard, even if
you are typing on your phone, long nails will make the typing experience hectic
for you, making your typing speed slower than you thought.
If all the time
you fix artificial nails to your fingers, then it is highly advisable that you
stop because the artificial nails are highly vulnerable to germs and all sort
of infection. The longer you leave your fixed nails on your finger, the more
likely it is prone to germs.
You have long
nails on your finger and you are using them to eat your meal? If this is the
case, then note that it can aid infectious agents, germs and bacteria to enter
into your health system. Sometimes, even after washing your hands, some stubborn
germs would take your fixed or long nails for cover and hide under it.
On another note,
one turnoff for keeping long nails whether natural or artificial is that it
requires high maintenance especially the artificial ones, and will definitely consume
not just your money, but your time as well. You will always be worrying about
their maintenance.
To be frank, you
end up being selective of the things you hold or pick because you are scared of
breaking or damaging your long nails which you might be keeping for a long time
and it would hurt you so much to damage them.
Well, even after
reading all the disadvantages of keeping long nails, some of you, especially
the fashion freaks (ladies) who are so fascinated about their nails and would
not want to cut them would still go on keeping their nails, not minding the
demerits. The only advice here is that since you still insist on keeping long
nails, try and be maintaining them and keep them healthy. To
maintain your fingernails, avoid using them in opening objects that have the
ability to scrap off part of it and make it dangerously sharp; while cooking,
ensure that you put on gloves to prevent germs gathering underneath your
fingernails and to prevent them from entering your meal.
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To cap it all, you have read some of the reasons why keeping of long fingernails is bad and destructive. It is now left for you to decide whether to stop keeping the long nails for various reasons, such as healthy issues, or if you still insist on keeping them, follow the steps outlined here for maintaining them, all for your own good.
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