Early in the season against the skin allergy

Beijing Chaoyang Hospital director Chen Yong Department of traditional Chinese Medicine

Source: Health News

        Why the spring allergy prone skin? Because of the cold winter, people go out activities to reduce the heavy winter coat, cover your skin tight, skin irritation ability gradually declined. Spring warming, people take off the heavy clothing, outdoor activity also increased, while the skin to ultraviolet and other external factors various injury protection ability is the year when the weakest, incommensurate can hardly be avoided.

        From the skin of the physiological characteristics of spring, because of windy, dry climate and the temperature rise, cutaneous water evaporation, dissipation rate than any season fast, especially the exposed facial skin is extremely easy to dehydration, drying. Dry skin elasticity reduces, the outermost skin horny chapped, tilt, make originally smooth, moist skin look dry china.

        Because the skin suddenly from clothing tight package exposed, itself the weak resistance, they encountered a windy, dry climate, water easily formed skin injury. Stratum corneum integrity is destroyed, make the skin on the outside damage, stimulation of the resistance is reduced further, expose to the weather will produce erythema, swelling when the inflammatory reaction is not surprising.

        The most sensitive skin allergy belongs to, and not the true sense of the allergy. Sensitive to skin in specific period, specific conditions, exciting to the outside tolerance ability, once the skin return to normal, sensitive will disappear.

        In the spring is coming, should take effective preventive measures. First to replenish moisture for skin, can make skin water. In addition to cultivate the habit of drinking more water every day, can be soaked with warm water or towels do wet compress, conditional use some moisturizing effect of skin care products and so on, to maintain skin moisture, keep skin elasticity, protect the skin stratum corneum integrity is good. Secondly, gradually and progressively increase in outdoor activities, let the skin gradually adapt to the environment. Eat more vegetables, fruits, appropriate to eat some meat and so on, in order to maintain skin moisture.