Contents:
- Medical Video: Why Do We Blush?
- Red cheeks are responses from the sympathetic nervous system
- Surgery to limit the red cheek response
Medical Video: Why Do We Blush?
The body will react differently when you experience certain emotional turmoil. For example, when you are feeling nervous or embarrassed, your cheeks will flush red or even red. Actually, why are your cheeks red when you feel embarrassed? This is the answer.
Red cheeks are responses from the sympathetic nervous system
Blushing and shame are two things that are interrelated. Both are natural responses from someone who is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system. This system works spontaneously and cannot be regulated. That is, there is nothing you have to think about to do the process. Unlike when you want to move your arm, for example, you must think first to do it.
When you feel embarrassed, your body releases adrenaline. This hormone acts as a natural stimulator that has various effects on the body. Increased adrenaline in the body causes your heart rate and breathing to increase.
In addition, adrenal hormones also cause your blood vessels to dilate which increases blood circulation. Since your face is filled with small blood vessels, an increase in blood flow in the area becomes easier to see. Well, this is the condition that makes your face or cheeks blush red, which is considered a natural reaction from feeling shy.
In other words, the adrenal hormone causes more blood flow to the cheeks, causing a red tinge on your face when you are blushing shyly. Interestingly, this is an unusual response from your veins. Because, in other areas of the body, veins do not do much of this effect when adrenaline is released. Yes, adrenal hormones only have a small effect or even this hormone has no effect at all on the veins.
So, just feeling shy can be triggered by the adrenal hormone, causing redness on the face. That is why blushing the face while feeling shy is a unique phenomenon.
In general, blushing when shy is a natural condition that occurs spontaneously and you cannot control it. Even so, this condition generally only lasts a while and will pass on its own after you feel more relaxed and can control yourself.
Surgery to limit the red cheek response
Even though blushing cheeks when you're nervous or embarrassed is a natural response, not everyone likes this condition. Some people say that the cheeks or reddened face tend to look rather excessive. Especially for people who have white or bright skin. Well, if you are one of those who is experiencing this condition, you should not worry.
Because, you can overcome excessive redness of the cheeks by performing an endothoracic sympathectomy operation. Yes, this surgery is generally done by those who have erythrophobia, the term for someone who is afraid of cheeks or blushing when he is nervous or embarrassed.
Endothoracic sympathectomy is performed by cutting a small nerve that causes a reddish response on the face. After the surgery is done, the natural response of your cheeks to redden when embarrassed will decrease.
