“Don’t eat soy sauce, chocolate and other dark foods, otherwise it will leave scars !” If you have wounds on your body, you will often hear this statement. But are dark foods really bad for wound healing? Do dark foods really make scars darker? [Oxford Cloth]
How does a wound heal? It is understood that wound healing is actually two parallel processes: the first is cell proliferation. The second is the proliferation of fibrous tissue. Through reviewing the information, we learned that the factors currently recognized as affecting wound healing include: infection, foreign body retention or hematoma, drugs, systemic diseases, etc. All these influencing factors are pathological conditions that directly or indirectly affect cell proliferation or/and fibrous tissue proliferation.
It is understood that as long as it is normal food, it will not affect the healing of wounds. Because the above two processes, cell proliferation and fibrous tissue proliferation, are not only wound repair processes, but also normal tissue renewal processes of the human body. If a substance has an observable effect on these two processes, whether it is dark or light, it must be a poison rather than food. 【210D Oxford cloth】
Will dark-colored foods cause the healed wound to turn black? In fact, it can cause skin discoloration The darkening substance is called melanin, which is secreted by melanocytes present in the epidermis. When ultraviolet rays irradiate the skin and act on the basal layer of the skin, the skin will be in a state of “self-protection”, activating the activity of tyrosinase and using tyrosine as a material to generate melanin. Melanin pigmentation after superficial wound healing is mainly caused by stimulation of melanocytes in the skin, and is more common in exposed parts. This kind of melanin deposition is to some extent a self-protection mechanism of the body, because new skin is relatively delicate, and a large amount of melanin helps to resist ultraviolet damage. If the skin is severely damaged and melanocytes are missing, not only will there be no melanin pigmentation, but white spots may be formed due to depigmentation. 【600D Oxford cloth】
Many dark-colored foods are indeed rich in tyrosine, but in many light-colored foods Tyrosine is also rich in content, and tyrosine is an amino acid that can be synthesized by itself. There is no scientific basis for saying that you need to eat less dark-colored foods during the wound healing period. If you want the wound to heal well without pigmentation, be careful not to let the wound become infected or inflamed, and pay attention to sun protection.
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