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With aging, the tissues around your eyes, including some of the muscles supporting your eyelids, weaken. Normal fat that helps support the eyes can then move into the lower eyelids, causing the lids to appear puffy. Fluid also may accumulate in the space below your eyes, adding to the swelling.
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Allergies can cause fluid to build up in your sinuses and around your eyes. This can lead to under-eye swelling. An allergic reaction can also make your eyes red, itchy, and watery.
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A lack of sleep can weaken the muscles around your eyes. It can also lead to a loss of collagen — the elastic tissue — under the eyes. This causes fluid to collect in the area, making the area beneath your eyes to swell up. Under-eye swelling because of little sleep may last a few hours to 24 hours.
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Depending on the cause and how much your eye is pushed forward, this condition may be called exophthalmos or proptosis. Bulging eyes can be caused by: Graves' disease, a thyroid disease that is a common cause of eyes that bulge. Inflammation or tumors of the eye socket.
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As you have already experienced, it is possible and fairly common to develop under-eye edema from crying. The etiology of this occurrence is not completely clear, but it is likely due to increased water retention in the subcutaneous tissue in the thin under-eye skin due to salt in tears.
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Bags under eyes — mild swelling or puffiness under the eyes — are common as you age. With aging, the tissues around your eyes, including some of the muscles supporting your eyelids, weaken. Normal fat that helps support the eyes can then move into the lower eyelids, causing the lids to appear puffy.
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Excessive bubbles in the urine – especially those that require you to flush several times before they go away—indicate protein in the urine. This puffiness around your eyes can be due to the fact that your kidneys are leaking a large amount of protein in the urine, rather than keeping it in the body.
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Fluid may also be more likely to get trapped in your lower eyelid as you age. Fluid retention is known as edema. The thin skin around your eyelid can cause fluid retention to be very prominent, resulting in puffy eyes. You may notice that your eyes appear puffier when you get up in the morning.
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Water retention If the intracellular concentration of fluid is greater than the extracellular concentration, you'll start pooling water into that low-concentration area and it will cause swelling or bloat,” DuFour says.
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Reduces puffiness under eyes If you suffer from puffy eyes or have bags under your eyes, then ice cubes serve the purpose. Ice has the quality to reduce swellings, and thus makes these swollen bags disappear quickly. Apply ice on the affected areas, and your beautiful eyes will get back in shape.
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A salty dinner or a night of crying can lead to under-eye puffiness. Everyday habits, such as rubbing your eyes, smoking and excessive drinking, also can contribute to under-eye bags.
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Along with puffiness and redness, your eyes may feel dry after crying. Not only that, but your whole face — especially the skin under and around your eyes — may also feel dry. Rehydrating your body and your skin should help bring back moisture.
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Sleep is not all that causes eye bags to look puffy in the morning. Dehydration and gravity are also to blame.
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Periorbital puffiness, also known as puffy eyes, or swelling around the eyes, is the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. It is almost exclusively caused by fluid buildup around the eyes, or periorbital edema.
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Allergies are a common cause of puffy eyes. This happens because protective cells in your eyes, called mast cells, give off immune proteins called histamine to fight allergens. This makes your eyes sensitive and watery. Your eyes will also tear up to wash out the pollen or other allergen.
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Your feet, hands, or lips are swollen. According to the MSD Manual, drinking too much water can lead to low levels of sodium in the blood. This can cause the body's cells to swell and retain fluid. In some cases, the cells in the tissues of the face or extremities feel or look puffy if you've been over hydrating.
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Puffy, swollen eyelids and dark circles under the eyes can occur when you have an eye infection such as pink eye. These swollen eyes are caused by inflammation associated with the eye infection, which directly affects the neighboring eyelids. Also, dry eyes can cause general puffiness and swelling.