Why do middle-aged women have acne? With the progress of society and the accelerated pace of society, the pressure of life and work faced by professional women gradually increases. As most of the female androgens are produced by the adrenal cortex, long-term mental stress can lead to endocrine dysfunction, stimulating the pituitary-adrenal axis – androgen secretion increases, and this stimulation can stimulate the sebaceous glands in the skin to increase their secretion. This stimulation stimulates the sebaceous glands in the skin to increase their secretion. This sebum cannot be completely discharged from the sebaceous ducts, and when it collects at the mouth of the follicle, it mixes with the epithelial cells shed at the mouth of the follicle to form a yellowish-white, cheese-like substance that plugs the mouth of the follicle and becomes acne. The theory of Chinese medicine is that the qi is not regulated, the internal qi does not flow, the lung qi does not descend, the depression turns into heat, and the face is steamed, causing acne. Women should develop a regular lifestyle and maintain a cheerful and happy mood. “The lungs and the large intestine are in phase with each other, so maintaining the habit of regular daily bowel movements has a crucial role in the treatment and prevention of acne. You should use foods that have a cooling and heat-eliminating, moistening effect, such as lean pork, duck, bitter melon, cucumber, loofah, winter melon, tomato, tofu, lotus root, watermelon, pear, hawthorn, apple, etc. Spicy and warm foods often lead to acne recurrence. It is best to eat less fatty animal meat, fried food, egg yolk, peanuts and various kinds of sugar, as well as wine, coffee, chili peppers, garlic, leeks, dog meat and mutton. Patients with acne should wash their faces with warm water 2-3 times a day to remove excess oil, bacteria and aging skin cells; wash your face gently and never squeeze out the acne lesions by yourself to avoid causing inflammatory reactions and leaving scars. Is melasma due to pregnancy? Melasma is a common pigmentation skin disease that occurs on the face and is limited to light brown to dark brown. In Chinese medicine, it is called “facial dust”, “sallow spots” and “liver spots”. Many women take oral contraceptives for a long time to avoid unwanted pregnancy, which can cause changes in the hormone level in the body and increase the activity of melanocytes, resulting in excessive melanin deposition on the skin and forming chloasma; the same reason is that chloasma often appears on the face of women with gynecological diseases. Some ingredients in cosmetics such as oxidized linoleic acid, citral, salicylate, metals, preservatives and fragrances may stimulate the skin or cause allergic reactions, resulting in pigmentation. The survey shows that 50% of women are often troubled by bad mood, and their mood will be worse after melasma appears, forming a vicious circle. In addition, genetic factors, sun exposure, improper diet and some chronic diseases may trigger melasma. To prevent the occurrence of melasma, you should keep a good state of mind, squeeze some time to do something you like, and a happy mood will keep the endocrine system in a coordinated state. Choose the right cosmetics, rather than using poor quality products. Eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, such as tomatoes, hawthorn, fresh dates, kiwi, fresh leafy greens, etc. Sun protection is a routine maintenance that cannot be ignored. Once melasma cannot subside for several months, it needs to be treated in regular hospital. Commonly used drugs include some herbs, vitamin C, vitamin E, etc., which must be taken under the guidance of doctors. For example, if the skin problem is caused by malnutrition, patients should strengthen nutrition; if the skin problem is caused by contraceptive pills, patients should stop taking the pills; if the skin problem is caused by thyroid gland dysfunction, patients should be treated in time. Prevention of age spots In old age, some flat dark brown patches often appear on the skin of face, back of hands and calves, which are called “age spots” or “life spots”, and medically they are called age pigment spots. This kind of age spots has no bad feeling and usually does not need treatment. However, because they affect the appearance of the body and indicate the gradual aging of the body, they will add a little psychological pressure to the elderly. The reason for the formation of age spots is that in the process of metabolism, lipids in the body are oxidized by oxygen free radicals and produce lipofuscin, which gathers on the surface of the body and forms age spots. If it is deposited on the wall of blood vessels, it will cause fibrous lesions in blood vessels, leading to atherosclerosis, hypertension and myocardial infarction; when it accumulates in brain cells, it will affect brain function, accelerate brain aging process, cause memory loss, mental impairment and depression in the elderly, and even lead to Alzheimer’s disease. To prevent and treat senile plaque, we should eat less fat, reduce fat intake to 50~60 grams per day or less, and mainly vegetable fat; secondly, we should increase foods rich in vitamin C, vitamin E and other antioxidants, such as vegetables, fruits, vegetable oil, soybeans, sesame, peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, animal liver and kidney, etc. If necessary, we should take vitamin drug preparations under the guidance of doctors, such as vitamin E 100 mg per day, vitamin C 300~500 mg per day, and vitamin C 300~500 mg per day. Vitamin C 300 to 500 mg per day. Next is to diligently go to the sports field. Sports can effectively stop the deposition of lipofuscin to the blood vessel wall and protect the blood vessels from the harm of age spots. Another trick is to take some anti-aging herbal medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, ganoderma lucidum, silver fungus and hawthorn under the guidance of herbalists, which also have certain effect on inhibiting and eliminating age spots.