Ever heard of "dry nails"?

I've had monthly pedicures for about a year. Yesterday i took the polish off and I've got this white stuff on my toe nails. I went to a doc in the box at the grocery store and the nurse actually googled photos of nail fungus to compare my nails to. She couldn't tell me for sure that i had fungus but suggested I see a specialist. So I walked next door to the spa where I get my nails done (it's a medical spa.. super clean..single use equipment). The nail tech(who says she took a class on diseases of nails) told me it's not fungus it's dryness because the nail polish is drying to the nail. I have had polish on them constantly for a year. So who do I believe?

Go with the nail tech at the spa; she'd have seen other cases where people had fungus or dry nails.

I have that same problem. Only my nails literally rotted off. Oh, they grew back though. Somehow, the nail polish wouldn't let my toe nails breath I guess. the enamel was so hard and it just suffocated my toe nails. I didn't have that problem with my fingernails. I think the coating has alot to do with it, I'm not sure. Just let your toes nails rest. Whenever you shower, the water penetrates the nails. It's like watering a plant. They rejuvenate and grow again. I would just lighten up on the coating. That helped me. Another idea is that the acetone (chemical) to remove the old polish damaged the nail before the new polish was applied. I don't know, it's just my guess.

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