High cholesterol symptoms that appear around your eyes - including skin bumps
21.07.2022 - 12:21
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High cholesterol can occur due to an unhealthy lifestyle and can increase a person's risk of developing life-threatening conditions such as heart disease or a stroke .
It can have a number of symptoms as the cholesterol build-up in your body can impact hands, feet, and even eyes among other warning signs.
Many may not realise that their eyes could warn of cholesterol build-up, however it is important to know the symptoms so that you can make the necessary lifestyle changes to bring it back to healthy levels.
Typically this requires some exercise and a balanced diet as well as cutting out smoking and drinking alcohol, the Mirror reports .
With that in mind, here are three eye symptoms which may signal that your cholesterol levels are too high, putting you at an increased risk for a number of serious health conditions.
The most common eye symptom that is linked to high cholesterol is a xanthelasma. Cholesterol can deposit around the eyes to form fatty, yellowish lumps, according to The NHS.
They look like flat or somewhat raised yellowish bumps around the eyes or near the nose. They also tend to appear on the upper and lower eyelids, near the inner corner of the eye, and often develop symmetrically around both eyes.
The deposits are caused by a build-up of cholesterol under the skin. These lesions may remain the same size or grow very slowly over time. Xanthelasmas do not affect your vision.
A condition called arcus senilis can also indicate high cholesterol. With this condition, a blue, white, or light grey ring forms around the outside of the front of your eye as more cholesterol reaches the cornea.
The ring will appear around the coloured part of the iris. The condition may appear as if there are two colours in the