Dietary prevention and treatment of melasma

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards and the change of consumption concepts, many female friends have begun to pay attention to beauty care. However, according to surveys, although many people do various maintenance and apply expensive cosmetics, they still cannot suppress the growth of chloasma on their faces, which makes female friends very distressed. Below we will introduce some dietary prevention and treatment methods for melasma, hoping that it will help improve your skin.

Speaking of the formation of chloasma, in fact, most of them are directly related to the failure to protect the sun, because there is a beam of ultraviolet light that can promote the precipitation of melanin. If the sunscreen you apply does not contain ingredients that can block this beam of light or you don’t have the habit of applying sunscreen at all, then the formation of chloasma is inevitable. In addition to using cosmetics, there are also diet therapy and drug therapy to remove chloasma. Below we will introduce the diet therapy prevention and treatment methods of chloasma in detail.

Melasma is closely related to diet. Experts believe that long-term lack of glutathione in the diet can cause tyrosine in the skin to produce dopaquinone, which is then oxidized into dopaminergic reaction, producing melanin, thus causing pigmentation. Therefore, a reasonable diet has a certain effect on preventing chloasma.

The treatment of melasma requires a combination of internal and external methods. First, the cause must be eliminated and strict sun protection must be applied. The most effective topical medication is the Kligman formula: 5% hydroquinone, 0.1% tretinoin, and 0.1% dexamethasone. Commonly used ones are silk white freckle cream and hydroquinone cream. There are some whitening and freckle-removing cosmetics on the market that contain arbutin, vitamin C/E and their derivatives, some plant flavonoids and polyphenol extracts, niacinamide and other whitening ingredients, which also have certain effects when applied externally and can be used in combination. Whether it is whitening cosmetics or medicines, it takes at least two months of use to see the effects, and you need to persist. Also, acid peels. Treatments such as vitamin C ion introduction also have relatively good therapeutic effects. There are also some Chinese medicines such as Jiawei Xiaoyao Powder and Taohong Siwu Decoction that may be helpful. These medicines need to be taken for a long time and will not be effective in the short term. In short, the treatment of melasma is quite difficult and requires patience and gradual adjustment.

Warm reminder: Through the above introduction, I believe you have already understood the dietary prevention and treatment methods of chloasma. So if you are worried about the heavy chloasma on your face and don’t want to use cosmetics to repair it, you might as well try the above methods. I believe your troubles will be solved soon.