Should I use hot or cold water to apply to swollen eyes?

If your eyes are swollen, you must pay attention and use some methods to help reduce the swelling to avoid affecting your overall image. If your eyes are swollen from crying, it is recommended to use ice compresses, but if the eyes are swollen due to eye inflammation, then you should use hot compresses.

1. Use ice to treat swollen eyes

Girls may cry because of a touching movie or something sad. After their eyes are swollen from crying, they can immediately apply ice to reduce the swelling. This can effectively constrict the blood vessels around the eyes, thereby helping to reduce swelling of the muscles around the eyes and inhibit congestion of the eyes.

2. Use hot compresses when your eyes are inflamed and swollen

Girls may get eye inflammation due to wearing contact lenses and other reasons, and some inflammation may cause swollen eyes. In this case, hot compress can effectively reduce the swelling of the eyes. Girls can fill a heat-resistant bottle with hot water, wrap a towel around the bottle, and then apply it to the inflamed and swollen eyes, which can effectively reduce the swelling of the eyes.

3. Use hot compress to treat eye swelling caused by trauma

The tissues around the eye sockets are rich in blood vessels. After a blunt blow, subcutaneous bleeding often causes large swellings and purple bruises. At this time, you must not massage or apply hot compresses to avoid aggravating the subcutaneous hematoma. Instead, you should immediately apply local cold compresses with ice bags or cool towels to reduce swelling and relieve pain. After 24 hours, you can switch to hot compress to promote the absorption of local blood stasis. Those with serious injuries should seek medical attention promptly to avoid vision damage.

4. Drink too much water before going to bed and your eyes will be swollen. Apply hot and cold compresses alternately

If your eyes are swollen due to excessive fatigue or because you drink too much water before going to bed, you should choose alternating hot and cold eye compresses, which is the correct way to apply eye compresses. Apply a hot towel and a cold towel on your eyes alternately, and the symptoms of swollen eyelids will disappear quickly.