I believe that when you hear names such as melasma, freckles, age spots, etc., you will unconsciously think of the spots on your face, but you are not familiar with the name of butterfly spots, and you can only roughly guess that its shape has a certain relationship with butterflies.
In fact, butterfly spots are melasma, which is a kind of skin pigmentation spot that appears on the face.
Clinically, most of the butterflies that grow butterfly spots are middle-aged women, and it is precisely because it is symmetrically distributed on people's cheeks that the whole looks like a butterfly, so it is called butterfly spots.
Since it is not an independent disease, it is a symptom of skin melanosis, if it has caused a serious impact on the human face, it is necessary to treat the symptoms in time.
So, how are butterfly spots formed?
1. Heredity
Butterfly spots have a certain family genetic predisposition, and in the clinic, 80% of butterfly spot patients are diseased because of genetic predisposition.
For example, if either parent grows butterfly spots, their children will have a higher probability of growing butterfly spots than normal people.
2. Hormones
If a person does not pay attention to diet and does not love exercise, it is possible to make the body obese, which will affect the function of the ovaries in the long run, coupled with the abnormal excitement of the function of the hypothalamic pituitary gland, it will lead to increased levels of estrogen and progesterone.
The melanocytes of the human body will secrete more melanin particles under the stimulation of estrogen, and these melanin particles will spread and transfer under the influence of progesterone, so people grow butterfly spots.
In addition, women during pregnancy or suffering from gynecological diseases may also cause abnormal ovarian function, such as high estrogen levels will stimulate the body to secrete more melanin particles and form butterfly spots.
If the level of estrogen is too low to act on the sebaceous glands, so that a large amount of melanin is deposited in the skin and cannot be excreted, butterfly spots will form over a long period of time.
3. Inferior cosmetics
There are many women who do not care whether they are produced by regular manufacturers when buying cosmetics, so it is possible to buy some inferior cosmetics, which contain excessive chemical components or heavy metals that will cause skin irritation.
After the skin absorbs these harmful substances, it will lose its luster, and it is easy to deposit in the depths of the hair follicle and difficult to clean, and it is easy to cause pigmentation and grow a large number of butterfly spots in the long run.
4. Drugs
Many women choose to take birth control pills for contraception. Because the contraceptive pill contains a lot of progesterone, after entering the human body, it will disturb the endocrine level of the human body itself, and for a long time, endocrine disorders will occur, resulting in a large number of butterfly spots on the face.
And long-term medication will also lead to liver and kidney irritation and damage, liver, kidneys can not normally discharge toxins for the human body, toxins gathered in the body is prone to pigmentation, butterfly spots thus grow.
The main cause of butterfly spots is the above four, in addition, long-term playing computers, mobile phones may be due to excessive radiation on the face and grow a lot of butterfly spots.
If you are often exposed to the sun, so that the skin is overly exposed to ultraviolet rays, melanocyte function activation will also release a large number of inflammatory cytokines, so that the face after the formation of a large number of pigments after the emergence of butterfly spots.
I hope that after everyone understands, they should stay away from these adverse factors as much as possible to help themselves reduce the incidence of butterfly spots.