Introduction: many people will have dark circles under their eyes if they don’t sleep well at night. However, dark circles under their eyes are not only a sign of insufficient sleep, but also a symptom of disease! Do you know what diseases dark circles can predict?
1, liver disease manifestation
Symptoms: pigmentation on the face and around the eyes
Dark circles under the eyes are the external manifestation of some chronic diseases, such as chronic liver disease, especially those with long-term abnormal liver function and hepatomegaly. About 20% of patients with liver disease have pigmentation at the exposed parts, such as the face and around the orbit, presenting “dark circles under the eyes”.
Prevention and treatment measures: the treatment of chronic liver disease is mainly based on rest and diet. It is necessary to reduce the burden of the liver and give adequate nutrition to repair damaged hepatocytes and restore liver function; Eat plenty of protein to ensure the needs of liver cell repair and regeneration. It is better to eat more milk, eggs and meat.
In order to meet the needs of glycogen content and metabolism in hepatocytes, carbohydrates and vitamins should be adequately supplied; At the same time, we should adhere to a low-fat diet, which can not only reduce the burden of the liver, but also help restore health.
2. irregular menstruation applicants
Symptoms: long-term existence
For women, if dark circles under the eyes exist for a long time, it may be caused by dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation. TCM believes that irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea are caused by abnormal blood circulation caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis and cold coagulation and blood stasis, and black circles under the eyes are the manifestation of abnormal blood circulation on the face. In addition, women with excessive menstrual blood volume or functional uterine bleeding are also prone to dark circles under the eyes.
Prevention and treatment measures: if irregular menstruation leads to dark circles under the eyes, you need to regulate your body.
3. Kidney deficiency
Symptoms: dull eyes and dark circles
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 moistening of essence and Qi, and the black of the kidney will float above. Therefore, the eyes will be dull and the circles of the eyes will be black. If the long-term lifestyle is unhealthy and sexual life is excessive, it is easy to cause dark circles under the eyes.
Prevention and treatment measures: prevent overwork, don’t stay up late, have a regular life, strengthen inner cultivation, keep happy, and prevent drastic changes in mood. Usually, you can eat foods with high calcium content, such as bone soup, or cool foods or drugs, such as yam, honeysuckle, mung bean, cassia seed, etc.
4. Chronic stomach disease
Symptoms: dark circles under the eyes will be dark and light blue, with a large range
If chronic gastritis patients suffer from long-term digestive and absorption dysfunction, recurrent gastritis attacks and dark circles under the eyes will also aggravate. People with neurasthenia and visceral diseases, especially chronic gastrointestinal diseases, will also have dark circles under their eyes.
Prevention and treatment measures: in addition to treatment, chronic gastrointestinal diseases are more important in daily life. Reasonable diet, avoid overeating, pay attention to food hygiene, and can’t give extra stimulation to the fragile gastrointestinal tract. After regulating the gastrointestinal tract, dark circles under the eyes will naturally be reduced.
5, nose sub question
Symptoms: black circles under the eyes when sneezing
Dark circles under the eyes may also be related to nose problems. If you sneeze and have a runny nose when you get up in the morning all year round, it will cause dark circles under your eyes due to the increase of blood flow near the venous sinus below your eyes. So if you have allergic rhinitis, it is impossible to have dark circles under your eyes.
Prevention and treatment measures: in addition to actively treating your rhinitis, you also need to pay attention to the following points. Don’t stay in an environment full of smoke to avoid extra stimulation to the nose; At the same time, in the morning and evening, pay attention not to let cold air irritate the trachea and cause allergic sneezing; Don’t sneeze too hard, because it will press the skin’s microvessels.
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