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Prevent aging
Bad habits can cause bags under the eyes to increase
The generation of eye bags is similar to wrinkles, which are normal manifestations of human aging, and their appearance is generally positively correlated with age. With age, the metabolism of the eye skin will slow down, and once the skin ages to a certain extent, eye bags will appear.
It can be said that bags under the eyes have a great relationship with the deterioration of skin muscle elasticity. When you are young, people’s skin is firm, but after entering middle age, the skin begins to relax, and the skin around the eyes is the thinnest and most prone to wrinkles. If you often look at the computer or play with the mobile phone, you are overworked, and you don’t get enough sleep. Poor blood circulation in the eye will increase the looseness of the skin and muscles around the eye, and the fat in the orbit will break through the orbital septum and bulge out.
Some people have bags under their eyes at the age of 30. This is also related to their long-term lack of rest, lack of sleep, and long-term use of electronic products.
Causes of eye bags
(1) The lower eyelid skin is weakened in elasticity, sagging and sagging.
(2) The lower eyelid orbicularis muscle has degenerative changes, weakened elasticity, relaxation and atrophy.
(3) The orbital diaphragm is degenerated and loose, and the supporting force is weakened.
(4) Displacement of orbital fat degeneration or excessive orbital fat hyperplasia.
Genetic cause
Some young people also have lower eyelid bags, mostly related to family genetic factors. In addition, in some people, especially young people, there is a horizontal bulge in the lower eyelid just before the tarsal plate, especially when smiling, making the lower eyelid appear bloated. This sign is caused by the local hypertrophy or loose accumulation of the orbicularis muscle of the lower eyelid. There is no loose orbital septum and swelling of orbital fat. Some scholars call it muscular eye bags, but some scholars believe that this shape cannot be counted as Real bags under the eyes are pseudo bags under the eyes.
Simple skin relaxation type is mainly manifested by simple skin relaxation and increased wrinkles:
1. Simple skin relaxation type: simple skin relaxation and increased wrinkles are the main manifestations, without prominent orbital septal fat and orbicularis oculi muscle hypertrophy.
2. Simple orbicularis oculi muscle hypertrophy: mainly manifested as bloated orbicularis oculi muscle hypertrophy in the lower eyelid, and the skin is not loose, mostly in young people.
3. Orbital fat herniation type: the orbital septal fat does not increase significantly, but the tissue outside the orbital septum is loose and the tension is reduced, forming a herniated orbital fat herniation
4. Orbital septal fat increased type: Mainly manifested as the increase of orbital septal fat tissue, while the skin and orbicularis muscle are loosened, and the lower eyelid forms obvious sagging
5. Mixed type: It accounts for the majority of palpebral pouches, that is, there are weak and loose skin and orbicularis oculi muscle, weak orbital septum, and bulging of orbital fat, which are more common in middle-aged and elderly people.
Poor spleen and stomach function and big bags under the eyes
How to prevent eye bags from appearing? If bags under the eyes appear, you can take care of them in your daily life.
1. Regular work and rest: ensure enough sleep time, light diet and exercise.
2. Hot compress: Atractylodes macrocephala boils water and externally apply eyelids. Chinese medicine believes that Atractylodes macrocephala has the functions and effects of diuresis, hepatoprotective and choleretic, anti-oxidation, immunity enhancement, anti-blood coagulation, and vasodilation.
3. Massage and health care: Eye exercises can promote blood circulation. Massage at Fenglong, Zusanli, Shenshu, Feishu, Temple, Guanyuan and other acupoints has the effect of invigorating the spleen, invigorating the kidney and removing dampness, and helps to eliminate eye bags.
3. Don't overuse your eyes, don't stay up late, and keep enough sleep.
4. Dietary care: To invigorate the spleen and dispel dampness, choose japonica rice, potatoes, ginseng, white lentils, lotus seed meat, yam, tuckahoe and other foods. You can also choose Shenlingbaizhu powder and Fuzilizhong pills according to your physical condition.
Tightening the orbital muscles is the key to removing eye bags
In addition to eating and resting, surgery is also a way to remove eye bags. Generally speaking, mild eye bag sagging can be surgically removed from the prominent eye bag fat, and the excess skin is removed to restore the sagging eye bag, but if it is severe eye bag sagging, it is not that simple. Blindly remove too much fat, not only cannot Recover the bags under the eyes and deepen the tear ditch, which makes it even more unsightly.
Experts say that to remove eye bags, it is more important to tighten loose muscles, and muscle tightening is the key to improving eye bags! Because the bags under the eyes are fat, these fats originally protect the eyeballs, but due to aging, the muscles around the orbits slowly become loose. Under the action of gravity, the fat breaks through the orbicularis oculi muscles, and the bags under the eyes appear. Therefore, surgery must solve the problem of muscle relaxation, not just remove the protruding fat.
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