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Swollen eyes and dark circles under the eyes can occur for many reasons, including inherited facial features, allergies, stress, eye fatigue and individual skin characteristics such as its texture. While some home remedies, such as soothing cucumber slices, cold compresses and the like can temporarily help you get rid of swollen eyes, a permanent solution depends on the cause of their occurrence.
Do you know which foods cause bags under your eyes?
Canned foods
Do you like buying chickpeas and beans in a can because they are easier and quicker to cook? These foods contain a lot of sodium, which is used during the canning process. Excessive consumption can lead to several health problems and under-eye bags are one of them. You don’t have to stop buying canned goods immediately, but rinse them in clean water before use to remove the sodium.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes contain solanine, like many nightshades. It promotes the formation of inflammation and swelling. So if you often have puffy eyes, try removing tomatoes from your diet for a while. If the problem disappears, you’ll know the cause.
White bread
Do you suffer from an allergy to wheat, barley or rye? Or do you have a gluten intolerance? If you aren’t careful and consume baked goods that contain one of these ingredients that doesn’t agree with your body, it will cause bloating and swelling. In that case you’ll have to say goodbye to bread made from wheat, for example, and replace it with an alternative.
Milk
More people suffer from lactose intolerance than you might expect. One study even reports a range of 65 to 70% of the adult world population.
Find out whether you belong to these allergy sufferers and eliminate the amount of dairy products to avoid swelling and bloating. Don’t forget that most ice creams are also considered dairy products!
Sugar
Sugar is one of the foods that most promotes inflammation throughout the body. Around the eyes this is most visible because the skin there is thin and prone to swelling. Eliminating or at least reducing sugar will give you many other health benefits. Artificial sugars or sweeteners are just as dangerous.
Chili peppers
Besides containing solanine like tomatoes, they contain capsaicin, which causes burning and inflammation of tissues. This inflammatory process can manifest mainly in the eye area, which then becomes swollen.
And which foods, on the other hand, make under-eye bags disappear?
Parsley helps the kidneys flush excess fluids from the body. Also try starting your day with oatmeal. Puffy eyes often appear with constipation, which fiber helps prevent. It supports bowel movements and elimination.
Avocado also helps with swollen eyes, but it’s better to use it externally in this case. If you cut avocado slices and place them over your eyes for at least ten minutes, thanks to vitamin K your dark circles will fade and the bags will also shrink or disappear completely.
A tried-and-true remedy for tired and swollen eyes is also cucumber slices. Put them on your eyes, leave them on for fifteen minutes and you’ll see how much brighter your look will be right away.
