When preparing for pregnancy, many women think that dark circles under the eyes are just a matter of lack of sleep and staying up late, and that concealer can cover them up. However, if dark circles exist for a long time, they have a lot to do with physical health, including respiratory and chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Irregular menstruation, etc. Below, the editor of Babao.com will share with you the reasons for dark circles under the eyes during pregnancy preparation. If you do not truly understand the causes of dark circles, you will never be able to cure the problem of dark circles.
1. Causes and improvements of dark circles
1. Allergic rhinitis: dark circles caused by sneezing.
Cause: Dark circles may also be related to nose problems. If you sneeze and have a runny nose when you wake up in the morning all year round, you can cause dark circles due to increased blood flow near the sinuses under your eyes.
Coping methods: In addition to actively treating your rhinitis, you also need to pay attention to the following points. Avoid staying in a smoky environment to avoid additional irritation to your nose.
2. Liver disease: There is pigmentation on the face and around the eyes.
Cause of formation: Chronic liver disease, especially those with long-term abnormal liver function and hepatomegaly, dark circles under the eyes often exist for a long time. About 20% of patients with liver disease have pigmentation in exposed parts, such as the face and around the eyes, showing \”dark circles\”.
Coping method: The treatment method for chronic liver disease is mainly rest and diet therapy, which should reduce the burden on the liver and provide sufficient nutrition to repair damaged liver cells and restore liver function.
3. Chronic gastritis: The dark circles are darker in color, light blue, and have a larger range
Cause of formation: If patients with chronic gastritis have long-term diminished digestion and absorption functions, gastritis Dark circles will worsen with repeated attacks. People suffering from neurasthenia and visceral diseases, especially chronic gastrointestinal diseases, may also experience dark circles.
Coping methods: In addition to treatment for chronic gastrointestinal diseases, the more important thing is to take care of yourself in daily life. Eat a reasonable diet, avoid overeating, and pay attention to dietary hygiene so as not to cause additional stimulation to the fragile gastrointestinal tract. After regulating the gastrointestinal tract, dark circles under the eyes will naturally be reduced.
4. Caused by kidney deficiency: dull eyes and dark circles under the eyes.
Cause of formation: Traditional medicine believes that dark circles under the eyes are caused by kidney deficiency. If the kidney essence is deficient, the eyes will lack the nourishment of the essence, and the black color of the kidneys will float above them, resulting in dull eyes and dark circles under the eyes.
Coping methods: Prevent overwork, stay up late, maintain a regular life, and at the same time strengthen inner cultivation, maintain a happy mood, and prevent drastic emotional changes. You can usually eat more foods high in calcium, such as bone soup, or refreshing foods and medicines, such as yam, honeysuckle, mung beans, cassia seeds, etc.
5. Irregular menstruation: dark circles exist for a long time.
Cause of formation: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea are caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, cold coagulation and blood stasis causing abnormal qi and blood movement, and dark circles are the manifestation of abnormal qi and blood movement on the face. . In addition, women with heavy menstrual bleeding or functional uterine bleeding are also prone to dark circles.
How to deal with it: If the dark circles are caused by irregular menstruation, then you need to regulate your menstruation. It is recommended to carry out conditioning and treatment under the guidance of a doctor.
2. Other causes of dark circles
1. Lack of sleep: Lack of sleep and excessive fatigue make the eyelids inoperable. When resting, the blood flow in this area increases for a long time, causing the blood vessels in the subcutaneous tissue of the eye circles to swell, resulting in congestion of the eye circles and leaving dark shadows.
2. Genetic constitution: The patient\’s orbicularis oculi muscle is congenitally thicker or the pigment of the eyelids is darker and more pigmented than the skin pigment of adjacent parts, so the eyes appear dark gray.
3. Cosmetic pigments: Cosmetic pigments penetrate, and frequent use of cosmetics may cause dark pigment particles to penetrate into the eyelids. Over time, dark circles will form.
4. Varicose veins: Varicose veins or varicose veins in the eye socket or eyelids, as well as long-term edema of the eyelids, can also cause venous blood congestion.
5. Eye trauma: Contusion of the eye socket or eyelid can cause subcutaneous bleeding and form the appearance of dark circles.
6. Chronic illness and frailty: For people who have been ill for a long time or have just recovered from a serious illness, due to the weak subcutaneous tissue around the eyes, the skin is prone to pigmentation, which is easily exposed on the upper and lower eyelids, with a layer of black circles appearing.
7. Lack of exercise: Lack of physical exercise and physical labor leads to poor blood circulation.
8. Excessive sexual desire: If you live an unhealthy lifestyle for a long time and have excessive sex, it can easily lead to dark circles.
