What your Eye bags tell about your health? How to get rid of them?
Eye bags are the common beauty issues found in a massive number of people. Well, we are not born with such surreal eyebags. There are many causes for the formation of eye bags but the primary cause will be Ageing. As we age we tend to diagnose many strange beauty problems. However, there is a remedy for every problem. Let’s find out the different types of eye bags, causes and the ways to get rid of eye bags.
What are Eye bags?
Eyebags in medical terms called as ‘Preorbital Puffiness’, is a condition that occurs due to fluid build-up in the skin around the eyes. Eye bags are the name given to the fluid-filled, puffy, bag-like shaped and swollen eyes.
The reasons behind the fluids build-up or swelling of the skin around the eyes are because of many common and unusual factors like lack of sleep, crying and allergies. Every person will have eye bags at any point in time of their lives.
Amongst all the other causes, swelling around the eyes is primarily associated with the ageing factor. Once your skin starts showing the signs of ageing, your eyes will lose elasticity and thereby the sagging eyelids, wrinkles, dark circles or folds are formed.
These Eye bags also create shadows under the eyes, which are popularly known as dark circles.
What are the Causes of Eye Bags
A lot of factors can be considered to find out the formation of Eye bags. Whilst some of the major causes should be,
- Lack of Sleep
- Crying too much
- Allergic reactions
- Ageing
- Preservative foods
- Excess usage of Electronic gadgets
- Environmental Pollution
- Excess Alcohol consumption or Smoking
- Hormonal Imbalance
- Stress
- Nutritional Deficiency
What do your Eye bags tell about your health? and How to get rid of Eyebags?
Though there are several causes of eye bags, according to the Chinese traditional medicine there are 3 major types of Eyebags.
- Spleen Eyebags
- Kidney Eyebags
- Temporary Eyebags
1. Spleen Eye bags
Apparently, the upper and lower eyelids belong to the spleen. The Spleen eyebags tend to appear swollen and shiny. When you diagnose spleen eyebags, you will also notice other symptoms like diarrhoea, insomnia, lack of energy and memory loss. Therefore, when you experience such symptoms accompanied by the swollen eye bags, you should take an utmost care of your spleen.
You can try Chinese traditional medicine in order to combat spleen deficiency. The Chinese traditional medicines include Sweet potato, Chestnuts, Red dates, Yam, and Barley. You can either grind these ingredients into a powder and mix with water or simply you can blend them with the meals.
Spleen Eye bags Massaging exercise
Blend the ice water with fresh milk and dip a cotton ball into the solution. Remove from the solution, squeeze 80% of water and apply it to your eyes for 15 minutes.
2. Kidney Eye bags
Kidney eyebags appear like green bruises as if someone gave a punch to your eye (like a black eye). The symptoms you would diagnose along with these eyebags are Ulcers, Sore muscles, Weak legs, Frequent urination, and a Swollen tongue with a white layer on top. Green bruise like eyebags accompanied by these symptoms indicates you to take utmost care of your kidneys.
Kidneys play a predominant role in cleansing the blood. So, the consumption of antioxidants enriched foods like goji berries helps you to combat such eye bags.
3. Temporary Eye bags
These temporary eyebags will commonly occur due to excess crying or bloating. The appearance of these eye bags is usually swollen and puffy. You will identify sagging eyelids and tightened skin around the eyes. Temporary eye bags will disappear after a couple of hours. Sometimes, you will also observe black shadows underneath your eyes.
There are so many homemade treatments to get rid of these temporary eye bags such as applying ice cubes, tea bags, and eye masks.
Now, you might be well-versed about the types of eye bags, what different types of eyebags tell about your health and the remedies to combat the health problems. Comment down your experience with any of the eyebags and let us know your remedies to heal such health problems.
Also Read
- What Pimples say about your health? How to get rid of them?
- How to get rid of Acne Scabs?
- 41 Diy Peel off masks for Acne, Blackheads and Glowing skin
- 10 Bad and Unhealthy Food combinations that ruin your health
Simple yet Clear description about eyebags.
I been having temporary eye bags when I wake up and all I do is just let it go away. In a couple of hours there gone.
Yes, Temporary Eye bags don’t last for a long time.
Hello Divya
I have permanent 2 eye bags next to each other on my left side only. I am 58yrs old. I also have dark circles. How do I get rid of the eye bags and dark circle?
Many thanks
Divya
For the eye bags and dark circles, things like green tea bags, cold spoons, potatoes work well.
You can also have a look at my article, https://www.superloudmouth.com/how-to-never-look-tired-tips/
Well I was just born with them
Perhaps a Genetic problem!