Dark Circle Under the Eyes: Causes and Treatment

Our eyes are the most attractive features of our body, also associated with health and well being. Bright under eye gives you the fresh and youth full look while the dark under eye makes you appear dull, tired, older than your age and exhausted. Dark circles is very common in our region (India), it can appear in both male and female, it often accompanied by bags under your eye's water line. Dark circle can look worse if you have sunken eye as well. Due to sunken eye, dark circle look darker because of shadow. Though they affect anyone but are more common people who:

• Old aged
• Family history of dark circle (genetic)
• People who have dark skin tone

Causes of Dark Circle

In order to get rid of dark circles, you must know the reason behind your Dark Circle. Suppose a situation where you have your dark circle due to some allergy, and instead of treating it you are using under eye cream, and expecting your dark circle to disappear, is it possible?. No, so that's why you need to know the reason behind your dark circle. Fatigue may seem like the most logical reason but there can be some internal issues as well or any other factor. Given below are the causes:

• Fatigue: This is the most common cause. Oversleeping, extreme fatigue, or staying up late at night. Less sleep can make you under eye area dull and pale, this allows your dark tissue and vessels underneath your tissue to show. Insomnia can also cause fluid buildup under your eye known as eye bags.
• Age: as you grow old your skin under the eye becomes thinner. You lose fat and collagen needed to maintain your skin elasticity. As a result your dark blood vessels which are blue in color, visible more clearly making your under-eye dark.
• Eye strain: working in front of a screen or using a mobile late night can cause eye strain. Strain can cause your blood vessels to get enlarged, making your skin around the eye appear darker.
• Allergies: when your body releases histamines as a response to harmful bacteria causing allergies, your under-eye area becomes dark. This also causes your blood vessels to appear more clearly. In this case, redness, puffy eye, and itchiness accompany the dark circles. Allergies also increase the urge to rub your eyes. Your under-eye area skin is very delicate. When you rub your eye, you worsen your dark circle and also your eye health.
• Sun exposure: exposing yourself to UV rays, making your body to produce melanin ( a pigment that helps to prevent you from skin cancer, but making your skin dark). So this causes pigmentation under your eye. use sunscreen before stepping out.
• Genetic: if you have a family history of dark circles, then you received your dark circle from your parents. It may get worsen with age or disappear. Disease like the thyroid can also cause a dark circle. Get medicines to treat your thyroid disease from an online chemist pharmacy.

Treatment:

Home remedies for the treatment for a dark circle are:

• Cold compress: rub ice cubes gently around your eye area for 20 minutes. This cold compression will help reduce swelling and shrink dilated blood vessels.
• Green tea: drinking green in the morning will make you energetic and fresh. After making your morning green tea, use these bags to treat your dark circles, by simply placing it on your eyelids for 15 minutes. This will make your eye feel relax and after regular use, you will notice the difference.
• Sleep: sleep is very important, it makes you look fresh, energetic, and stress-free. Getting 7-8 hours of sleep is a must. Getting less sleep is one of the main causes of dark circles.
• Elevate your head while sleeping: elevating your head with the help of a pillow will not allow fluids from pooling under your eyes. This way you will get rid of puffy eyes.

Medical treatment:

• Tissue fillers: Conceal blood vessels so it won't be visible and also reduce the contribution of shadow to your dark circle.
• Laser surgery: this is used to resurface the skin under your eye area.

So now we can conclude that fatigue is not the only reason for the dark circle. After discovering your cause of dark circle, get some medical creams with vitamin K to treat your dark circle, order it from an online chemist shop.