What are puffy eyes?
Eyeball swelling, also known as bleb eye and bleb eye, is generally caused by congenital or aging, slack orbital septum, prominent intraorbital fat or drooping lacrimal gland, and the upper eyelid appears bloated and hypertrophy. In severe cases, the outer eye area appears swelling and eaves-like drooping, making the eye shape like a triangular eye with small eyes splitting.
In the anatomy of the eye, there is a tissue called orbital septum, which exists between the tarsal plate and orbital margin of the eye and plays a role in separating the eyelid from the orbit. Swelling eye bubbles will make the upper eyelid look bloated and thick, and in severe cases, there will be swollen eaves drooping outside the eyes, which will greatly affect the facial beauty.
Causes of eye bleb swelling
Blisters can be roughly divided into congenital puffballs and acquired puffballs, and the causes of the two different types are also different.
1, congenital pouch
Congenital puffiness is caused by family inheritance. In young people, the orbital septum fat is located in a lower anatomical position, or the orbital septum fat is congenital overgrowth, which leads to the swelling of eye bubbles. Some brow bones are over-developed, which leads to swelling of eye bubbles.
2. Acquired edema
There are many reasons for eye blisters, mainly the following: skin aging; Kidney disease; Improper use of eye cream; Water imbalance leads to swelling of eye bubbles; Temporary puffiness may also be caused by drinking too much water before going to bed.
Types of swollen blisters
1, the fat man has swollen eyes
If the swollen eyes are fatty, liposuction can be used to solve the problem of eye edema before total double eyelid resection. By removing upper eyelid fat, eye edema can be improved, and it is possible to form double eyelids naturally after operation.
2. Muscle swollen eyes
If the eye swelling is caused by muscular orbicularis oculi hypertrophy, the thick part of the orbicularis oculi muscle that hinders the beauty of the eyes can be thinned by cutting the skin of the upper eyelid, which can achieve good results and weaken the eye swelling.
3, the skin is loose and swollen.
For patients with simple skin relaxation, it is only necessary to remove redundant skin without destroying tissues, such as orbicularis oculi muscle and orbital septum fat, so as to avoid depression after orbital septum fat removal and unnecessary complications after blepharoplasty, such as complications of eyeball double eyelid surgery.
Although the causes of eye edema are different, the common point is that there are redundant things in the eyes that need to be removed, such as fat, orbicularis oculi muscle and skin. Of all the surgical methods, only total double eyelid resection can do this. Some people worry about scars. In fact, double eyelid surgery is a very delicate operation, and the incision is not very big. It adopts plastic surgery sewing method and extremely fine sewing needle and thread. With years of clinical experience and surgical skills, coupled with the self-repair ability of their own tissues, scars will not be obvious after recovery, and even some people can hardly see scars after recovery.
If you have swollen eyelids and single eyelids at the same time, or you want double eyelids, then it is most appropriate to completely cut the double eyelid surgery.
Matters needing attention in postoperative recovery period
After the operation, the eyes will change slightly every day, so don't panic in the following situations.
1, expansion stage
There may be slight exudation on 1 day after operation. There is no need to be nervous at this time, it is normal. Ice compress is needed to relieve bleeding. If there is more exudation, you can go to the hospital to wash and change the medicine. 1-3 days later, swelling, tight eyelids and excessive secretion will occur. These are normal phenomena, and there is no need to panic.
2. Fast fading period
Generally, 4-9 days after surgery, the redness and purple around the wound will gradually reduce, become shallow and then turn yellow. In addition to these features, the wound may feel itchy. These are also normal phenomena, indicating that the wound is healing and it is time to take out the stitches. Don't pull the wound in a hurry at this time, otherwise it will easily cause infection. You can do mild hot compress to speed up the recovery of the wound.
3. Persistent fading period
Usually 10- 30 days after operation. Maybe the eyes are still swollen during this period, and the eyes look asymmetrical, and the gap is a bit big. Don't worry too much. You can continue to apply hot compress and let them recover. As long as there is not much difference in eyes after three months of full recovery, there will basically be no problem. Moreover, normal people's eyes are not exactly the same, and it is impossible to ask for too much perfection.
4. Stable period
30 days to 3 months after operation, at this time, some epidermis tissues grow well, and the next period of time is the time for the subcutaneous tissue of the wound to heal and recover. At this time, there will be a scar hyperplasia. It may be observed that there will be redness and swelling at the double eyelid line, and the tissue on that piece feels hard, and some people even have small meat balls. At this time, you must not touch it all the time, because the more stimulation you touch, the greater the scar hyperplasia. Therefore, before this, scar softening cream can be used when removing stitches to reduce and inhibit scar hyperplasia.
5. Formation period
After 180-365 days, the shape of the double eyelids has completely come out, and the swollen blisters have disappeared without any discomfort and symptoms.
Postoperative care is very important!
1, pay attention to strengthen the movement of eye muscles.
Double eyelid surgery usually needs to cover the incision for one day, and remove the covered gauze the next day after operation, so as to open his eyes as soon as possible.
2. Prevent scar hyperplasia at the operation site.
Some people still use some anti-wrinkle sunscreen products containing heavy metals such as mercury after double eyelid surgery. These cosmetics and skin care products containing heavy metals may aggravate the scar hyperplasia of surgical incision.
3. Pay attention to moisturizing and soften eyelid tissue.
Many people's surgical incisions have completely returned to normal, but the surgical site still feels nervous and dull, and others look awkward. In fact, this phenomenon is normal after surgery. As long as the local moisturizing and softening are done well, the tension will be reduced accordingly.