How to prevent premenstrual acne

During menstruation, due to changes in the female endocrine system, many pimples may appear on the face. At this time, you need to pay strict attention to your eating habits, avoid eating spicy and greasy foods, and pay attention to facial care. Don’t wear makeup during menstruation. Makeup will prevent your facial skin from breathing normally, and the oil will not be able to be released, which will cause acne. So, how to prevent acne before menstruation?

1. Reasons

1. Excessive male hormones: Starting from puberty and throughout the reproductive age of women, the ovaries and endometrium will undergo cyclical changes due to changes in hormone levels, resulting in menstruation. During the period from ovulation to before menstruation, the androgen content or the ratio of androgen to estrogen is relatively high, which leads to a corresponding increase in sebaceous gland activity, thus easily causing acne to worsen.

2. Excessive sebum secretion: clogged hair follicles. Studies have found that the lipid composition of the skin surface before menstruation is significantly different from that in other periods. The sebaceous gland ducts of the hair follicles are smallest on the 15th to 20th day of the menstrual cycle (before menstruation), and sebum secretion is easily blocked, which causes acne to worsen before menstruation.

3. Decreased secretion of progesterone hormone and egg cell hormone: One week before menstruation, the secretion of progesterone hormone and egg cell hormone decreases, the physical and mental conditions begin to become unstable, the skin is prone to allergies, becomes rough, oil secretion increases, and acne is easy to develop.

4. Other personal factors: premenstrual tension, anxiety, irritability, insomnia and bad eating and living habits may also be one of the causes of inducing or aggravating acne. When it comes to acne during menstruation, it must not be treated the same as ordinary acne during the treatment process. While removing acne, you must pay attention to the regulation of the female endocrine system. Only when the endocrine system is balanced can you control the growth of new acne.

2. Mitigation Methods

1. Regulate the endocrine system: To regulate the endocrine system, you should start with diet and exercise, supplemented by drug treatment when necessary. You should develop good eating habits, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, high-protein foods, drink plenty of water, and replenish the water needed by the body; at the same time, you should participate in various sports and exercises to strengthen your physical fitness; you should also have a scientific life routine and do not stay up late often, so as not to disrupt the normal physiological laws, causing an imbalance or even insufficient hormone secretion, and then cause other diseases; you should also pay attention to rest and adequate sleep, avoid excessive fatigue and excitement, and keep a happy spirit to prevent bad emotions from affecting the endocrine system and prevent infection. Do not buy daily necessities made of plastic and try to avoid the harm of environmental hormones.

2. Diet: Don’t eat too salty food. Allergic foods should also be avoided as much as possible, including mango, taro, eggplant, and seafood. Eating more foods containing magnesium and B vitamins such as bananas, vitamin C, animal liver, drinking soy milk, honey, and more boiled water every day can make your metabolism better.