There are many reasons for getting up in the morning with a swollen face, such as excessive water intake before going to bed, malnutrition edema, thyroid disease, heart failure and so on.
1. Excessive water intake before going to bed: some patients consume too much water at night when they sleep, and the body’s digestive function decreases after going to bed at night, leading to the accumulation of water in the body, which causes swelling in the face when waking up in the morning.
2. malnutrition edema: such as common hypoproteinemia, when the patient’s body albumin level is low, unable to maintain the normal colloid osmotic pressure of the internal environment, which leads to the accumulation of water in the third interstitial space, the morning get up when the face will be swollen.
3. Thyroid disease: such as the common hypothyroidism, due to the secretion of thyroid hormone is too little, thus causing slow metabolism, water and sodium retention in the body, resulting in swelling in the face when waking up in the morning.
4. Heart failure: when patients with symptoms of heart failure, the heart ejection function is weakened, blood reflux is impeded, resulting in abnormal fluid metabolism, which can also cause swelling in the face in the morning.
Wake up in the morning face swelling, need to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease, can not rely on a symptom alone for the diagnosis of the disease.