Can I have double eyelids during my period?

Double eyelid surgery is favored by many beauty-conscious ladies. Through double eyelid surgery, your small single eyelid eyes can be transformed into beautiful big, twinkling eyes. However, there are actually many taboos in doing double eyelids. If you do it during your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, it may cause harm to your body and may affect the effect of the double eyelids. This is also something that beauty-conscious ladies should pay attention to.

1. Reasons

Women must not undergo blepharoplasty or other similar cosmetic surgeries during their menstrual period. Although double eyelid surgery is only a minor operation, it is a traumatic or invasive medical technique that involves plastic surgery on the human eye. Women should never undergo cosmetic surgeries like double eyelid surgery during their menstrual period.

Under normal circumstances, a blood clot should form quickly on the wound after cosmetic surgery. However, during the menstrual period, women experience an increase in the pro-activator of plasminogen in the blood, which causes bleeding or prolonged bleeding, allowing bacteria to invade and cause wound infection. It is recommended that women undergo cosmetic surgery three days before their menstrual period or three days after their menstrual period stops.

2. Postoperative precautions

(1) Keep the wound clean during double eyelid surgery to prevent infection

Be careful not to wet the wound when washing your face after surgery. The eye dressing can be removed 1 to 2 days after the double eyelid surgery. If there are blood scabs or secretions on the wound, wipe them with sterile saline or medical alcohol.

(2) Do not take painkillers casually during double eyelid surgery

There will be some pain in the wound on the day of double eyelid surgery, but it will gradually subside over time. Patients should not rush to take painkillers because aspirin-like drugs will increase bleeding in the wound.

(3) Prevention and treatment of bleeding, congestion or hematoma in the wound after double eyelid plastic surgery

If small blood vessels are damaged during double eyelid surgery or bleeding is not completely stopped during the operation, the eyes are hit externally after the operation, strenuous exercise or volatile emotions may cause bleeding, congestion or hematoma in the wound. To prevent the occurrence of the above complications, you can apply pressure to the local wound or use an ice pack to cool it, but the pressure should not be too high to avoid damaging the eyes.

(4) Pay attention to strengthening the eye muscle exercises during double eyelid surgery

Double eyelid plastic surgery generally requires covering the incision for one day. The covering gauze should be removed on the second day after the operation, and eye-opening exercises should be performed as soon as possible.

3. Indications

(1) If you have thin eyelid skin, long palpebral fissures, and a high nose bridge, the effect of Korean double eyelid surgery will be better.

(2) Some people who love beauty have hidden double eyelids, which means that their double eyelids are not so obvious when they open their eyes.

(3) For those who love beauty, those with special eye shapes, such as "different-sized eyes", "triangular eyes", "squinting eyes" and "splayed eyes", can have their eyes corrected through double eyelid surgery to make them look better.

(4) Suitable groups for double eyelid surgery Double eyelid surgery is based on one side of the eye. If one side is single eyelid and the other side is double eyelid, then the double eyelid should be used as the standard so that both sides can be symmetrical.