My nails peel like onions

Try some vitamin E capsules. Take one every day and within a few days you should see a difference in your nails. I take them regularly and am able to grow lovely long strong nails.

Your nails are actually hair follicles flattened. If you are having a peeling problem with your nails you may also notice your hair having problems. I had this same thing happen to me for years. I asked every Dr and person I knew about why this happened and no one knew for sure. They all just threw guesses out there at me. I was told to take a million kinds of vitamins and eat a million different kinds of food etc. Nothing worked, no kind of soaking them , no vitamins, no change in my diet, nothing! Finally my general practioner whom I never inquired about this with noticed my nails during a routine check-up. She told me I had an infection and a yeast build up in my body somewhere to cause this problem. At this same time my hair was very lifeless, like it was sick all the time. She prescribed an antibiotic for the infection and as soon as it cleared up my nails stopped peeling. What is odd now when I get an infection the first thing that happens is my nails peel and I know right away what is wrong with me. The best cure for this is to keep the nails trimmed with clippers, do not bite them and do not let them grow long. The name of the infection is onycholysis if you want to look it up. We all respond differently to vitamins and medicine, so what works for some does not work for others. The peeling if limited to a few nails could also be caused from a past trauma to the nail bed. I know as a kid I use to get my pinkie and thumbs slammed in car doors and these are the ones that peel the most when I have an infection. Here is a good article about all this I found in the internet, it is short and may shine some light. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/892430576.Gb.r.html

The best that I have come across is products by OBI it is very good If you can get that in Switzerland then that is the best for your Nails, I tried all sorts to harden my Nails as they are soft through my Illness but this OBI helped and my Nails are back to normal

B complex vitamins or specifically Biotin (2.5mg/day and no more) may help. Peeling fingernails is a sign of not eating enough vitamins and minerals so if you eat more of those things and less junk food than that will probably help. and don't ever get fake nails because they will make them even more flimsy, wear gloves to wash your dishes etc. Hope that this helps you in some way. Our body has a habit of showing us when we are doing something wrong and if we only listen at the early stages we can avoid even worse things.

biotin works well also.it's sold at GNC and walmart. my thyroid causes the same problems for me and since i started taking it the nail splitting has stopped entirely.