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Try the following home made remedies if you have puffy eyes from allergies.

Visiting my niece yesterday, she was wearing dark glasses indoors… Not a weird teenage fashion statement but she wanted to hide her eyes. No, don’t get me wrong, she isn’t on drugs, just that her eyelids where a bit swollen.

It started the evening before and the whole eyelid was a bit puffy. Since her general health further on is OK and I am a chef, of course I was thinking about food allergy and some food remedies for reducing puffy eyes.

Treatment for puffy eyes

Puffy eyes allergy can best be treated in finding the sources causing the allergy. Therefore you should start noting down everything you do during the day related to:

• make up on your face
   
• soap, shower
   
• what you breath in and
   
• what you eat

Then try to find a pattern : you will get rid of puffy eyes once you eliminate the source of puffy eyes.

Reduce puffy eyes

The following puffy eye remedies at least relieved my nieces puffy eyes. At this moment she feels fine again, which led me to believe she must have had some allergic reaction.

If none of the below puffy eyes remedies work, do go see a doctor and ask for a deep diagnosis and treatment for puffy eyes. There also exist creams against eye puffiness, but when you have an allergy, sometimes it’s not that wise to add a cream. Ask your doctor!

If you really want to self medicate using a cream, then try an Aloe Vera based cream: Aloe Vera will hydrate your eyes.

Tea remedy for puffy eyes

The age-old remedy against dark circles under the eyes, also works against fluffy eyes.

• normal tea reduces swelling,
   
• chamomile tea soothes redness and inflammation.

Put the tea-bags in hot water for three minutes. Let cool until the bags are comfortably warm, lie down, close your eyes and put the bags over your puffy eyes. Unlike on the picture, it’s better to wrap the towel around your eyes! Relax your fluffy eyes for at least 10 minutes.

Make sure you drink the tea, as sometimes puffy eyes indicate water retention in the eyes. The more you drink, the better excess salts can be flushed out of your system.

Herbal home remedy for allergy

When your fluffy eyes are caused by an allergy, then drinking homemade barley drinks twice a day could solve the problem. This is my favourite barley drink recipe, deliciously aromatised with screwpine leaves and dried fruit:

Ingredients:

• some screwpine leaves (pandan-leaves: screwpine is "Malaysian Vanilla" and a delicious ingredient in Malaysian desserts (read more about delicious Malaysian recipes at Kuih Rose Recipe)
   
• 1 handful dried winter melon (winter melon, sugar, sulphide dioxide) (Kundur Manis)
   
• a handful of the best quality barley
   
• some bean curd skin (tofu-skin, fu chuck) tear into pieces
   
• water

Preparation:

• wash the barley until water is clear
   
• put in a medium sized pot, add the other ingredients and fill the pot for 3 quarters with water
   
• boil until the water turns white in colour (about 1 hour)

Please leave a comment if you know more home remedies against puffy eyes from allergies!

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