Help. Nails breaking / peeling all the time

[PinguFanatic]

I keep trying to grow my fingernails, however they either seem to peel, which makes them really thin and flimsy and break, or I get little rips where the fingernail touches the skin at the side and so the whole nail which I've spent months growing breaks off.

I want to grow decent length nails that don't keep falling apart. I have this memory from when i was younger of seeing an advert of a woman opening a can of coke with her fingernail, I want nails like that! Or is that just a pipe dream and it can only be done with fake nails (and strong glue)?

You need to eat some jelly babies!

Could be a vitamin D deficiency - do you spend time in the sun (when we see it in this country?)

I do spend a lot of time in the sun. I've just (yesterday) started taking some vitamin tablets as I pondered if vitamins could be something to do with it.

Use a nail hardener, like Sally Hansen. Just looks like clear nail polish. I've only been able to grow my nails since using this.

You need Sally Hansen Miracle cure - in the blue bottle, about 9 quid and worth every penny!

Nowt worked on me until OPI Nail Envy. Great stuff.

Get some MM tablets off amazon, I'm on the Solgar ones since may and my nails are much longer and stronger.

Just broke two of the feckers today though.

MSM tablets even.

ffs.

I thought it was zinc for nails, or am I making that up?

No, zinc too.

Zinc citrate is best iirc.

Thought so.

I've been taking zinc for a couple of months now, there's a ridge across my nails where they seem to be growing thicker and stronger. Thinking about it they used to be really flakey and haven't split for ages now :)

/goes off to check the vitamin tablets for Zinc.

Looks like they have zinc in them so hopefully that will start to make a difference. I also popped out and got the Sally Henson miracle cure stuff.

Thanks for all the help, hopefully I'll have lovely long nails soon!