What Are the Common Causes of Dark Eye Circles in Children?

Dark circles are caused by staying up late, large emotional fluctuations, eye fatigue, and aging, which cause blood flow in the skin and blood vessels of the eye to become too slow to form stagnation; insufficient oxygen supply to the tissue, and excessive accumulation of metabolic waste in the blood vessels, causing eye pigmentation. The older the person, the thinner the subcutaneous fat around the eyes, so the dark circles are more obvious.

Basic Information

English name

bags beneath the eyes

Visiting department

Ophthalmology

Common causes

Due to staying up late, the mood fluctuates greatly, causing eye fatigue and aging

Causes of dark circles

There are two types of dark circles, one is cyan dark circles due to blood retention in microvessels, and the other is dark brown circles caused by melanin production or incomplete metabolism. Dark blue eyes are more common in people with irregular schedules, and more common in young people. Tea dark circles are mostly related to age. Long-term sun exposure causes pigmentation to settle around the eyes and form dark circles over time. There are many reasons for dark circles, such as:

1. Genetic constitution and physiological structure

When the skin around the eye socket is extremely thin and the subcutaneous tissue is extremely small, when the blood flow passes through the large veins here, it is convenient to appear near the skin's surface layer with blue-black dizziness, which looks like dark circles.

2. lack of sleep

There are many microvessels around the eyes. Staying up late makes the eyelids unable to rest, the blood vessels continue to contract and contract, and the blood flow increases for a long time, causing congestion and edema of blood vessels under the eye circles and subcutaneous tissues, leaving dark shadows.

3. Long-term illness is frail or serious illness recovers

Due to the weak subcutaneous tissue around the eyes, the skin is prone to pigmentation and is easily exposed on the upper and lower eyelids, with a layer of black circles.

4. Inflammation

Hereditary allergies or allergic contact dermatitis can cause dark circles around the eyes.

5. Other

For example, excessive use of cosmetics, smoking, old age, irregular menstruation, late pregnancy, excessive intercourse, and certain liver and kidney diseases may cause dark circles.

Clinical manifestations of dark circles

The performance of dark circles caused by different reasons is different. Common examples are:

1. Congenital eye skin pigmentation increases

The congenital orbicularis orbicularis muscle is thicker, or the skin color of the eye circle is darker or darker than the skin of the adjacent part. Such dark eye circles are mostly dark gray.

2. Retention of blood flow to eyelid blood vessels

Such as staying up late, increased stress, excessive thinking, lack of sleep, etc. can cause the skin around the eyes to darken, mostly blue-black. After removing the above incentives, it can return to normal.

3.Pigmentation

If you often use cosmetics, draw eyeliner and mascara, and do not completely remove makeup, some dark cosmetic particles may penetrate into the eyelids, which may cause dark circles.

4. Imbalanced nutrition

Abnormal diet, lack of iron, can cause anemia, can also show dark circles, often accompanied by lips, pale conjunctiva.

5. Allergic rhinitis

Patients with allergic rhinitis can also show dark circles. Because the eyes and nose communicate through the nasolacrimal duct, allergic and inflammatory reactions in the nose and even pathogens such as nasal bacteria can spread to the eyes through the nasolacrimal duct, causing eye redness, tearing, and eye swelling, and severe cases can cause eye bags.

6. Eyelid aging and relaxation

Seen in the elderly, the skin is aging and sagging after aging, manifested by skin wrinkles that cause the appearance of skin tone to be darker than the surrounding.

7. Eye Shadow

Depression under the bags under the eyes or orbits creates shadows caused by the tear groove.

Dark circles

1. Ophthalmology professional examination: implemented according to the situation.

2. General examination: blood, urine routine, liver and kidney function, etc.

Dark circles diagnosis

Although most people's dark circles are caused by lack of sleep, eye fatigue, smoking, etc., if the dark circles still persist after removing the above conditions, they should go to the regular hospital's ophthalmology clinic as soon as possible, and other diseases should be excluded by the doctor.

Dark Circles Treatment

After the formation of dark circles, you should see a doctor promptly and treat under the guidance of a doctor.

Dark circles prevention

Maintain regular work and rest, adequate sleep, happy spirit, and moderate alcohol and tobacco; strengthen eye hygiene to avoid eye fatigue; balanced diet to ensure adequate intake of vitamins A and C groups; regular physical examination, early detection and treatment of other organ problems .