Natural sensitive muscles？ Wrong! It’s probably because you wash your face too seriously.

　　In the high-temperature roasting mode, people can’t help washing their faces more "seriously" when their skin is oily and sweaty. However, have you found that the harder you wash your face, the easier it is for your skin to get red and tingle? Now people pay more and more attention to "face engineering" such as skin care and beauty, but the incidence of sensitive muscles is increasing year by year. What causes the occurrence of sensitive muscles, and how do we need to care and treat them? This article will take you through the sensitive muscles.

　　These symptoms indicate that sensitive muscles have come to the door.

　　Do you often feel burning, redness, tingling or itching on your face?

　　Do you have a "bad face" when the season changes?

　　Do you often feel dry skin, and it will sting when you use skin care products?

　　Do you feel that your skin is so thin that you become sensitive to a little external stimulus?

　　If you have the above symptoms, it is the "sensitive muscle" that comes to you! Sensitive muscle, also known as sensitive skin, refers to a highly reactive state of skin, which mainly occurs in the face. When stimulated by physical, chemical, mental and other factors, the skin is prone to erythema, burning, tingling, itching and tightness, which often has a serious impact on the quality of life of patients.

　　The skin will be sensitive, mostly because it can’t "carry"

　　There are many reasons for sensitive skin, the most common of which is the impairment of skin barrier function.

　　Normal skin has a complete barrier function, which can resist external physical, chemical and other stimuli. The skin barrier is like a solid brick wall. Epidermal keratinocytes are equivalent to bricks. The matrix between cells is like cement, which closely connects the bricks together. The outermost layer is covered with lipids secreted by the skin, which constructs a complete and solid skin barrier.

　　When the barrier function is damaged, the brick wall structure becomes loose and thin. At this time, physical and chemical stimuli such as dust, pollen, pathogens and cosmetics can easily enter the skin, causing a series of allergic reactions, and the skin will feel uncomfortable such as dryness, redness, itching and tingling. If the skin barrier function is not restored for a long time and the symptoms are not alleviated repeatedly, sensitive muscles will be formed.

　　Wash your face and protect your skin too hard, and the skin barrier is easily damaged.

　　The thinning of the stratum corneum and the disappearance of lipids caused by various reasons will destroy the skin barrier function, and the first thing to do is excessive cleaning. Now that summer is hot, the skin will secrete more sweat and oil at high temperature, so some people will use cleansing products with stronger cleaning power more frequently, which will lead to more and more serious sensitive muscles.

　　Nowadays, fairies attach great importance to facial cleaning, and there are many cleansing products that emerge as the times require, such as scrub, exfoliating gel, face washing instrument, etc. These products will excessively remove the oil secreted by the skin and make the stratum corneum thinner. If used frequently and for a long time, the newly born keratinocytes can’t replenish the exfoliated cells, and the stratum corneum becomes thinner and looser for a long time, which will cause the skin barrier function to be destroyed, and it is very easy to cause erythema and tingling.

　　Not only that, using improper skin care products will also destroy the skin barrier function. Nowadays, there are many kinds of skin care products on the market, both in ingredients and dosage forms. Many fairies will apply layers of water, essence, lotion, cream, mask, whitening, anti-wrinkle, acne and moisturizing … … Complex ingredients will make the skin overwhelmed, and if illegal products with hormones and heavy metals are used again, it will cause skin sensitivity.

　　In addition, mental stress, staying up late, irregular diet and other factors will also affect epidermal metabolism, resulting in the occurrence of sensitive muscles.

　　Moisturize, moisturize and moisturize again. Say the important things three times.

　　How to care and treat sensitive muscles? For the treatment of sensitive muscles, different schemes are usually adopted according to the symptoms of patients. If the patient’s symptoms are mild, the most important treatment is to repair the barrier function of the skin, and the best way to repair the barrier function is to moisturize, moisturize and moisturize!

　　Skin care products with good moisturizing effect are not toner or mask, but lotion or cream. Emulsion or cream can supplement the matrix components missing between cells, just like the cement between brick walls, which can reconnect the brick walls and restore the skin barrier function.

　　It should be noted that patients with sensitive muscles need to streamline their skin care, do not use skin care products with too many varieties and complex ingredients, and only apply moisturizing cream with simple ingredients and low preservatives and spices. Moisturizing cream containing Shu Min can better relieve symptoms and repair skin barrier. Furthermore, the water temperature should not be overheated when washing your face daily. Try to use clean water or products with weak cleaning power to prevent skin oil and keratinocytes from being excessively cleaned.

　　My face is rotten, and I can use some medicine.

　　If the patient’s symptoms are severe, itching, redness and swelling are obvious, in addition to basic moisturizing, oral antihistamines and topical drugs will be given to the patient clinically. Non-hormonal drugs are the first choice for external use, but when the patient’s symptoms are serious, topical glucocorticoid can also be used for short-term treatment if necessary.

　　However, it should be noted that glucocorticoid is a double-edged sword, which can quickly control inflammation, alleviate skin symptoms, greatly shorten the course of disease, and there will be no obvious side effects in short-term use. However, long-term and frequent external use of glucocorticoid can lead to hormone-dependent dermatitis, skin thinning, telangiectasia and other problems, so external use of glucocorticoid should strictly follow the doctor’s advice and must not be used at will.

　　In addition, the combination therapy of phototherapy, radio frequency, introduction and intense pulsed light will be selected according to the patient’s course of disease and skin condition in clinic, so as to achieve the purpose of treating sensitive muscles quickly and efficiently.

　　Many sensitive muscles are caused by improper daily care. As long as we take daily scientific skin care and seek medical advice in time when skin discomfort occurs, I believe everyone will have healthy and tender skin.

　　Text/Lin Xuefei (xuanwu hospital, Capital Medical University)