Your eyes may be a window to your soul, but your hands are a window to your health. New research reveals the hands contain vital details about your health and undetected disease hidden deep within your body.
A simple handshake can reveal clues to health. Sweaty hands could warn of an overactive thyroid, and a painful handshake could be an indication of osteoporosis.
Other “hand signals” include:
Blue Fingernails. Blue fingernails, toenails and lips indicate blood isn’t being pumped properly through the cardiovascular system and suggest heart failure.
Reddened Palms. Watch for liver disease. A classic sign of cirrhosis is reddened palms.
Club Fingers. Dome-shaped tips of fingers or tips that look like miniature clubs indicate pulmonary problems, such as TB, lung cancer, or mesothelioma.
Bony Bumps on Fingers. Bony, painful, pea-sized lumps on fingers around the joints (called Heberden’s nodes) may mean you have osteoarthritis in your hips or knees. In one study, over half of people with previously undiagnosed arthritis in their hips had the bony bumps on their finger joints.
Fatty Knuckles. Lumps of fat on knuckles (called tendon xanthoma) that project when you make a fist are actually deposits of cholesterol and can indicate potentially deadly high levels of cholesterol.
Half-and-Half Nails. Nails that are pale on the part nearest the skin and brownish on the top half could indicate kidney disease.
Spoon Nails. Nails that dip in the middle (a condition called koilonychias) indicate anemia.
Hardened Lumps on Palms. Lumps on hands called palmar fasciitis can be a rare sign of ovarian cancer.
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