Every part reflects our state of health. Many people are unaware of their health and ignore many body signs. Though fingers are used for holding things, writing and almost every activities needs hand and finger to accomplish by with this fingers also reveal many other things about our health.

Some facts about health reflected by fingers:

Retention of fluid
Sometimes or fingers become swollen and puffy. Person become unable to bend the finger joints and have gripping issue this all is caused due to filling of fluid into body tissues and finger joints.

Infections on finger
Herpetic Whitlow, Paronychia and felon are infections that cause swelling, pus and blisters filled with blood on fingers and nails. This finger infectious spread from one finger to another.

Injury on joints
Injury is another reason of swollen fingers. Sprained finger, ligament torn off, tendon injury, and bone fracture can cause pain, swelling and stiffness over joint. This condition needs urgent attention.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Arthritis is one of the leading factors that affect fingers. It causes joint pain, redness, swelling and stiffness. Arthritis usually shows its early signs on fingers.

Gout
Gout is caused due to increase of uric acid and produce joint crystals. It mostly affects the people who eat excess meat and causes severe joint pain and swelling.

Kidney Disease
Swelling on fingers, face and feet are the first sign of kidney disease. When kidney unable to filter the waste and extra water from body this causes accumulation and results in joint swelling.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpel tunnel syndrome can cause chronic pain, numbness and swelling over fingers, it is caused due to frequent and overuse of joints.