How much do you know about facial pigmentation? The habits that cause pigmentation are revealed

Fair skin, beautiful face and long legs are the image in every woman's mind, but in real life, many beautiful faces with long legs are defeated by spots on their faces. Skin care is not difficult, but it is not easy to take care of it 365 days a year.

How Much Do You Know About Facial Pigmentation?

1. Inadequate cleaning

With the current air pollution, radiation from mobile phones and computers, residual foundation and makeup, etc., melanin is deposited and pores are clogged, which will form spots over time. Therefore, regardless of whether you wear makeup or not, you must remove makeup. After removing makeup, choose a suitable facial cleanser according to your personal skin condition and use exfoliating cleansing products regularly.

2. Mental stress

If the mind is under high pressure for a long time, endocrine disorders and metabolic imbalances will occur, which will manifest on the face over time, resulting in dull skin tone and pigmentation.

3. Ultraviolet rays

Dull, sagging, spots, acne, etc. are all related to UV damage. When exposed to sunlight for a long time, the skin will secrete melanin particles to protect the skin. Under normal circumstances, melanin will be naturally metabolized and decomposed, but when the sun damage is serious, some melanin cannot be metabolized normally and will be deposited to form spots.

4. Staying up late often

Staying up late often will increase the burden on other organs in the body. The liver will not be able to eliminate toxins in the body well, and the hematopoietic function will decline. Therefore, people who stay up late will have problems such as poor complexion and lack of blood. Over a long period of time, the accumulated toxins will form melanin deposits and other health problems.

How much do you know about facial pigmentation? How to identify and treat?

We often see advertisements: a certain drug can eliminate all facial spots, and a certain imported laser can eliminate various facial pigmentation spots. This is extremely unscientific, and it is very likely that the spots will become more serious due to incorrect treatment.

So how many types of facial pigmentation are there? How to simply distinguish?

There are 5 common types of facial pigmentation: chloasma, brown-blue nevus, freckles, nevus of Ota, and café-au-lait spots. There are 4 common facial skin diseases that are easily misdiagnosed as pigmentation: seborrheic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma, flat warts, and syringoma. To distinguish them, first look at the age when the spots appear, and then analyze their characteristics.

Choose from different treatments:

1. Facial spots that start to appear in children

It is usually caused by genetic or congenital factors, such as nevus of Ota and freckles. If the skin spots are large, blue-black or light brown, they are called "Nevus of Ota"; if the spots are yellow, the size of rice grains, they are called "freckles"; if the spots are flaky, coffee-colored, they are called "coffee spots".

Currently, selective laser therapy is used to treat Ota's nevus, which can basically cure it and prevent recurrence. Selective laser therapy is also used to treat freckles, and the effect is very good. However, you need to protect yourself from the sun, otherwise it may recur. Some patients with café au lait spots respond well to selective laser therapy, while others may have no significant effect.

2. Facial spots in middle-aged and young people

The most common ones are melasma and brown-blue nevus, followed by flat warts and syringoma.

Melasma and brown-blue nevus may look similar, but their treatments are completely different and must be strictly distinguished. "Melasma" is generally distributed symmetrically on the cheeks and is light yellow in color. It can be significantly aggravated by sun exposure and may also be aggravated by mood or poor sleep. "Brown-blue nevus" is often mistaken for chloasma, leading to incorrect treatment. Brown-blue nevus is generally symmetrically distributed on both sides of the cheekbones, that is, below the lower eyelids, that is, the site of the disease is closer to the eye area than chloasma, and is generally brown-blue or yellow-blue in color.

The treatment of melasma is a comprehensive treatment. First of all, you must maintain a good attitude and mood, get enough sleep, and actively protect yourself from the sun. For obvious melasma, you can consider using selective laser therapy or intense pulsed light. However, this laser treatment uses low-energy scanning or irradiation, and is repeated many times. Avoid using high-energy laser treatment to irritate and aggravate the melasma. At the same time, use the medical whitening moisturizing lotion to remove spots. There is now a very good treatment for the brown-blue nevus on the zygomatic region - selective laser irradiation, which is done once every three months. Generally, it can be basically eliminated after about five times without recurrence.

Flat warts and syringomas are two completely different diseases, and their treatments are also completely different. However, because they both appear light yellow in color, they are easily misdiagnosed and mistreated. Flat warts are a type of skin hyperplasia and pigmentation change caused by a virus. They cannot be treated with lasers at will, especially ordinary lasers. Otherwise, not only will the therapeutic effect be unsatisfactory, but scars may also be left. The treatment of flat warts is first with antiviral and immunity-enhancing drugs. Syringoma is common around the eyes, but can also be seen on the forehead and cheeks, appearing as small yellowish-brown or skin-colored rashes. This disease can only be treated with microwaves, lasers, etc., and drug treatment is difficult to be effective.

3. Facial spots in middle-aged and elderly people

The first thing to consider is seborrheic keratosis, followed by basal cell carcinoma. "Seborrheic keratosis" is a manifestation of skin aging, also known as senile warts, but human skin can actually age after the age of 25. Therefore, it is common to have seborrheic keratosis after the age of 30. At this time, selective laser treatment is the most effective, but microwaves and topical exfoliating drugs can also be considered. "Basal cell carcinoma" is more common in the elderly and has a darker color. The best treatment is surgical removal.

It can be seen from this that the situation of facial spots is very complicated. Not only are there multiple possibilities, but often several spots can exist at the same time. Ordinary people are unable to self-diagnose and self-select treatment methods, and they should not easily believe the deception of cosmetics salesmen and "social beauticians" (unprofessional beauticians) in beauty salons. They should choose the correct guidance of professional dermatologists as soon as possible.