How to reduce swelling on face

How to reduce the swelling of the face? Some friends often encounter this situation. When they wake up early in the morning and look in the mirror, they are shocked by themselves. They don’t know why their face is swollen. They are not beautiful anymore and they dare not put on makeup. They even don’t have the courage to go to work in the company, for fear of being seen by colleagues and scaring others. In fact, don’t panic. There are ways to reduce the swelling of the face.

If your face is swollen, you should pay attention to your lifestyle or details in various aspects to see if you have done anything inappropriate, such as staying up late, drinking too much water at night, etc. First of all, you should look for the reasons from yourself and try to change some of your bad living habits, then the swollen face will be changed. Then let us briefly understand what small things will cause the face to swell and how to eliminate it.

1. Live a regular life and don’t stay up late

One of the reasons for a swollen face is an irregular lifestyle. Often staying up late will affect metabolism. People who often stay up late and are under a lot of work pressure will slow down their body's metabolism and make it easy for waste to accumulate in the body. Or it may be due to irregular eating habits, or excessive stress that causes facial swelling. Sub-health problems can slow down the functioning of the lymphatic system, so excess water will accumulate in the body and cannot be discharged in time, causing body and facial swelling and other problems. Therefore, life must return to normal track, and you should give yourself more mental relaxation occasionally.

2. Don’t drink too much water before going to bed

Drinking water is important, but you cannot drink too much water before going to bed, as the water will be stored in the body and edema will occur the next day.

3 swelling-reducing actions

1: Pull your ears upward. Use one hand to pull the ear on the same side upwards, and with the other hand, press the face on the side of the stretched ear and push towards the ear.

2: Place the fingers of both hands on the center of the forehead, and then push towards the temples to help drain moisture from the face. Finally move to the temples and massage them.

4. Hot towel on face

Applying a hot towel to your face can also reduce swelling. It can relax facial muscles, unclog facial pores and lymph, and allow excess water on the face to be thoroughly discharged. The general time for applying a hot towel is 15-20 minutes, and the towel should be changed every 5 minutes.

5. Drink honey water

Honey has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, moistening the bowels, detoxifying and beautifying the skin. Because whether you have an irregular lifestyle or often stay up late, toxins will accumulate on your face, so eating honey regularly can expel toxins from your face and also has a good effect on beautifying your skin. Honey can also expel excess water from the body, thereby achieving the effect of slimming the face.

6. Drink Black Coffee

Drinking black coffee also has the effect of reducing swelling, because black coffee contains caffeine, which has the effect of draining water and promoting diuresis, and accelerates the consumption of body calories. Drinking black coffee can quickly and effectively eliminate facial swelling. After about half an hour to an hour, you will find that the swelling on your face has been significantly improved.

7. Alternate hot and cold water for facial application

Washing your face and applying it with alternating hot and cold water can also effectively reduce swelling. First apply a hot towel to your face, then use an iced towel. If you don't have a hot towel, use cold water. Repeat this process three times and keep applying it for 15 minutes to effectively eliminate facial swelling. Because alternating hot and cold facial compresses can promote blood circulation in the facial skin, thereby helping the facial skin to discharge excess moisture and achieve the purpose of eliminating facial edema. Be careful not to overheat the hot towel, be careful not to get burned.

8It is best to sleep with a high pillow

If you sleep with a high pillow, it can effectively prevent water accumulation in the face and cause swelling.

9. Reduce intake of foods that are easily affected by cold

On a daily basis, you should reduce your intake of foods that make the body susceptible to cold, cold drinks, or foods that increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, as these can easily fatigue the stomach and intestines, cause water to be retained in the body, and lead to edema.

10. Nutritional Supplements

Some facial swelling is caused by malnutrition, so you should pay more attention to protein intake and calcium absorption. Absorbing more calcium can also help excrete excess water produced by salt in the body. Foods rich in calcium include apples, corn, lentils and hard tofu. So you should also be careful not to eat too much salt and eat a light diet. Excessive salt intake will cause water to be retained in the body and cause edema.

11. Exercise moderately and stay optimistic

Some facial swelling is physiological swelling, so you should pay more attention to doing moderate exercise to strengthen your physical fitness and improve your adaptability. Your complexion, body shape and health status will be much better than that of ordinary people, and your face will not be easily swollen.

12. Take a warm bath

Soak your whole body in warm water, use the water temperature to increase your body's metabolism and promote blood circulation, which can eliminate excess water and waste from your body.

Everyone has the most basic understanding of how to reduce swelling on the face, but if the swelling is caused by injury or allergies, you need to go to the hospital for a check-up. Also, if you often have swollen faces, you should also pay more attention to whether other parts of the body are also swollen after getting up, such as the stomach or thighs and calves. If so, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for treatment to avoid affecting the condition.