Skin, Hair, and Nail Conditions

From bug bites to fungal infections to autoimmune disorders, there are a lot of conditions that can affect your skin, hair, and nails. These conditions affect not only our health, but also your quality of life. Find out about what different conditions look like and how you might be able to manage them.

Skin Health 101

person with skin infection scratching their skin
What Are Skin Infections?

Understanding Dandruff

person checking for dandruff in hair
Everything You Need To Know About Dandruff
person with dandruff
What Causes Dandruff?
A woman scratches her scalp in the mirror
How Is Dandruff Treated?

Nail Health Basics

A close-up of a person biting their fingernails
Why You Might Have White Spots on Your Nails
Person clipping fingernails
What Causes Yellow Nails?
After double ingrown toenail surgery, two red bandaged big toes hang out in comfortable flip flops and well-worn khakis for this young man.
What Is an Ingrown Toenail (Onychocryptosis)?
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Toenail Fungal Infection Treatment: What to Know
person receiving treatment for nail fungus
What Is Nail Fungus?

Explore Skin, Hair, and Nail Conditions

Close-up of person's hand touching their arm in the shower.
What Is Skin Turgor?
person with an itchy neck scratching it while sitting on desk
What Causes an Itchy Neck?
Person putting sunscreen on arm, sun rash
What Is a Sun Rash?
Dermatologist examining patient's shoulder for keratosis pilaris
Signs and Symptoms of Keratosis Pilaris
Person examining fingernails
What Is Nail Pitting?
Dermatologist examining back of patient's neck for carbuncle
What Is a Carbuncle?
Close up of a woman's hands/ dry skin with a darker skin tone. The woman is wearing a patterned light blue blouse and a dark blue sweater; there is a watch on her wrist
6 Reasons Your Skin Is Dry
person trying foot soak for ingrown toenail treatment
How To Fix an Ingrown Toenail
person with rosacea putting on cream to treat symptoms
How To Treat Rosacea
Person applying antifungal cream to athlete's foot
How Is Athlete's Foot Treated?
person with tinea capitis experiencing itchy scalp
What Is Tinea Capitis?
person using salicylic acid to get rid of a wart
How To Remove a Wart
Black woman with braids in a bun holding her scalp
7 Reasons Your Scalp Hurts
Caucasian woman looking at skin in mirror
What Is Sebaceous Hyperplasia?
A healthcare provider looks at the crease of a woman's arm
What Is Intertrigo?
Cyanotic hands or peripheral cyanosis or blue hands at Southeast Asian, Chinese child with congenital heart disease.
What Is Pallor?
Close-up of female feet with a black toenail
What Causes a Toenail to Turn Black?
A woman applies cream to her skin in the tub
What To Know About Your Integumentary System
person experiencing tinea versicolor patches on their back
What Is Tinea Versicolor?
person with sebaceous cyst on their hand
What Is a Sebaceous Cyst?
person examining facial acne that has pus
What Is Pus?
person putting ointment on hand to treat a boil
How Do You Treat a Boil?
dermatologist checking skin before punch biopsy
What Is a Punch Biopsy?
man scratching itchy yeast infection on skin
What Is a Yeast Infection on Skin (Cutaneous Candidiasis)?
person with albinism sitting on table
What Is Albinism?
hair with poliosis
What Is Poliosis (Poliosis Circumscripta)?
Top view of unrecognizable man suffering from psoriasis, scratching red, inflamed, flaky rash on skin of arm with fingers on white wooden background.
What Do Corticosteroids Do and When Do You Need Them?
close-up image of a boil on skin
Why Would a Boil Grow on Your Inner Thigh-And What Can You Do About It?
A woman looks at her face in the mirror
Why You Might Have White Spots on Your Skin
A man lies in a hospital bed and looks out the window
What Are Bed Sores (Pressure Ulcers)?
woman experiencing pain in armpit due to hidradenitis suppurativa symptoms
Signs and Symptoms of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
A close-up of a woman's torso, including her belly button
Everything You Need to Know About Navel Stones
person trying cryotherapy for milia removal
What To Know About Milia Removal
Mother takes care of her son
Signs and Symptoms of Impetigo
A close-up of a ganglion cyst on a person's wrist
What Is a Cyst?
A man inspects his neck in the mirror
What Is a Boil (Furuncle)?
person having symptoms of viral rash
9 Types of Viral Rashes—and What To Know About Each
Health Condition Illustration - Hidradenitis Suppurativa
What Is Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS)?
A person brushes their hair
What Causes Thin Hair—And How Can You Make It Thicker?
Person receiving botox in armpit for hidradenitis suppurativa
How Is Hidradenitis Suppurativa Treated?
Woman looking in the mirror
How To Tell If Your Skin is Purging or Breaking Out
A healthcare provider inspects the sole of a person's foot
5 Types of Warts You Might Get
A woman holds her hand to her privates with her legs slightly crossed
What Is a Vaginal Boil?
Someone itches the top of their foot with sneakers in the background
What to Know About Fungal Infections That Affect the Skin
person experiencing heat rash symptoms
Signs and Symptoms of Heat Rash
Rosemary oil for hair growth
Does Rosemary Oil Really Help With Hair Growth? Here's What Experts Have To Say
A man with male-pattern baldness looks in the mirror at his receding hairline
What Is a Hair Transplant?
Men getting ready to workout at the gym in the locker room - Lifestyles
What Is Jock Itch?
parent applying impetigo cream on child
How Is Impetigo Treated?
Health Photo Composite - Rosemary Oil
What Is Rosemary Oil?
Health Photo Composite - Heat Rash
What Is Heat Rash?
A woman itches her scalp
What Causes an Itchy Scalp—And How Do You Treat It?
doctor examining abscess
What Is an Abscess?
Doctor examining patient's face
Types of Skin Rashes and How to Treat Them
A woman holding a wooden comb in her hands, and a clump of hair that is falling out on the other hand
13 Reasons Your Hair Is Falling Out
Health Photo Composite - Ulcers
What Is an Ulcer?
young child with impetigo taking medication
What Is Impetigo?
A swimmer doing a swimming workout in a pool
5 Ways Chlorine Affects Your Body Long-Term
A blonde woman with wet hair touching her scalp
How to Take Care of Your Scalp and Why It Matters
Acne Mechanica or sports-induced acne or whiteheads or mild acne at forehead
What Is Folliculitis?
Man scratching feet next to old sneakers
What Is Athlete’s Foot?
A man shaves his face in the mirror
What to Know About Ingrown Hair
A healthcare provider assists an older woman lying in a bed
What Are Skin Ulcers—And How Are They Treated?