The fat face may be related to obesity, love of hard and difficult to chew food, Cushing’s syndrome and other reasons.
1. Obesity: If you often eat high sugar, high fat, high calorie food in your daily life, it will easily lead to the accumulation of excessive fat in your body, resulting in a fat face.
2. Love to eat hard and difficult to chew food: often eat chewing gum, nuts and other difficult to chew, hard food, easy to lead to facial biting muscles developed, may appear the phenomenon of facial fat.
3. Cushing’s syndrome: mainly caused by the malfunction of hypothalamus-adrenal axis regulation, long-term application of glucocorticoid drugs such as dexamethasone and hydrocortisone will lead to increased cortisol. Patients will have symptoms such as centripetal obesity and full-moon face, thus having a fat face.
In addition, renal disease, cardiovascular disease, digestive disease (such as cirrhosis), malnutrition, allergic reactions and other disease factors may trigger facial edema, which needs to be identified with physiological facial fat. It is recommended that when unexplained facial obesity occurs, one should go to the hospital in time to have a clear cause and correct treatment.