Diet taboos after spot spotting with medicine

Highly irritating foods that may aggravate inflammation, photosensitive/high tyrosine foods that easily induce pigmentation (need to be judged in conjunction with sun protection scenarios), sensitizing/blood-activating foods that may delay wound healing, and most of the other "can't eat soy sauce and can't eat black foods" spread online have no clear scientific basis, so don't be overly anxious.

Last month, a young girl born in the 2000s came to me to consult about repair issues. She said that she followed the list on the Internet and avoided her mouth for half a month after getting the spots. She didn't even dare to touch the braised pork ribs. As a result, she secretly drank a glass of sparkling water with rum. Her face became swollen the next day. After the scabs fell off, the red marks remained for almost a month - this is a pitfall of irritating food that is most easily ignored by everyone. Many people think of spicy food as spicy. In fact, it is much more than: high-salt pickled products, too hot hot pot, alcoholic drinks, and even allergenic fruits such as mango and pineapple that are prone to redness and itchiness after you eat them. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. I have a customer from Chongqing who has been eating spicy food since he was a child. He ate a bowl of slightly spicy noodles on the day after the spot treatment. Nothing happened and he recovered faster than anyone else. On the contrary, he was a girl who usually gets acne after eating spicy food. She secretly ate a butter hotpot and the wound immediately became inflamed and pus-producing. It was supposed to be healed in 7 days, but it took almost three weeks. To put it bluntly, it depends on your own tolerance. If you usually eat something that makes you feel uncomfortable, don’t touch it for 3 days before the freckles are applied. If you eat something that you don’t have any reaction to, eating a small amount will not cause any problems at all.

Let’s talk about the “blackening” issue that everyone is most afraid of. The most popular one on the Internet is that you can’t eat soy sauce, chocolate, or even drink cola. It is said that black food will leave black marks on wounds. In fact, this has been controversial in the industry for a long time: most beauticians of the older generation It will make you avoid eating and feel that more is worse than less, but clinical studies in dermatology have long confirmed that the melanin in these foods is food-derived. It is metabolized and decomposed after entering the intestines and stomach, and will not be directed to your skin wounds to deposit. To be honest, the foods that may induce pigmentation are actually photosensitive foods, such as celery, coriander, amaranth, and lemon. However, there is a prerequisite: only if you run out to the sun after eating them will trigger a photosensitivity reaction, making the skin more likely to tan. If you don’t go out at all after getting your freckles done and just follow online dramas at home with the curtains drawn, then it’s okay to eat a plate of cold celery, and there’s no need to avoid it at all. It is also said that foods high in tyrosine should not be eaten, such as red meat and animal liver. In fact, tyrosine is indeed the raw material for melanin synthesis, but the few bites you usually eat will not reach the amount that makes you darken. Unless you eat every day without sun protection, problems may arise.

Another pitfall that many people don't pay attention to is that one week before the spot treatment, don't eat medicinal foods that can replenish qi and blood, such as angelica stewed chicken, safflower boiled eggs, and some people drink brown sugar ginger tea every day to warm the body. If your wounds are prone to exudate, eating too much of these blood-activating foods will slow down the healing of the wound, cause the scab to fall off later, and the probability of leaving red marks will be much higher. A while ago, there was an eldest sister who had a scab that her family had stewed for a week with angelica and astragalus soup. The scabs that were supposed to fall off in 5 days took 12 days to fall off, and it took half a year for the red marks to disappear.

I have been doing skin management for almost 8 years, and I have seen too many people who are malnourished due to excessive dietary restrictions, and I have also seen people whose faces are ruined by eating and drinking. In fact, you really don’t need to take this matter too seriously. There are two core principles: first, when the wounds have not scabbed in the first 3 days, don’t eat things that make you uncomfortable.； Second, no matter what you eat, wear strict sun protection. Ultraviolet rays are the number one killer of pigmentation, and are more harmful than eating ten bowls of soy sauce. By the way, if you really can't resist eating hot pot or nibbling a mango, don't be so scared that you can't sleep. As long as there is no redness, swelling or itching, it will be fine. Just apply sunscreen and moisturize afterwards. Don't scare yourself. On the contrary, endocrine disorders are more likely to cause acne and leave marks, which is not worth the gain.