Dr Joseph Allen

The coolness effect, I believe, is going to be causing constriction of blood vessels.

It's going to be helping the tissue come down and swelling.

Just like if you bend your knee or elbow really hard on something, it swells.

There's a little bit of inflammation.

And so putting cold on there can help momentarily, but I wouldn't do it longer than 15 minutes.

The reason why is because if you do it longer than 15 minutes, your blood vessels can go the opposite way and cause more inflammation.

Weird, yeah.

There's other things like eye creams.

There's a plethora of different eye creams on the market.

Some of those do work to help constriction.

Some of those are to help truly remove pigmentation.

And a lot of those products can have effect, but it takes months to truly remove the pigment.

So you're talking, you're using that two, three times a day for like 14, 15 weeks.

But outside of that, if somebody's tried all those other avenues, talked with their dermatologist or an eye care provider of any kind and things still aren't getting better, there are some surgical procedures that can be done to help people with the appearance of under eye bags and some dark circles.

They either use various forms of light or light therapies to help remove pigmentation.

You have to be careful around the eyes when it comes to those sort of therapies, but they do exist.

And then there's fillers, like they'll do hyaluronic acid fillers to change the shadowing effects around the eye.

And then there's forms of what are called a blepharoplasty, which are true eyelid surgeries.

And for that, you would want to see an ophthalmologist who specializes in those type of therapies or those type of surgeries.

I do still encourage good sleep, eating healthy, staying hydrated.