What are the reasons for eyelid skipping

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Eyelid jump for nearly three months, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, jump 8-9 times a day at most, each time lasting for more than ten seconds, start with eyelid jump on both eyes, then jump up and down, the feeling of eyelid after jump is like stretching the rubber band, vision is not affected, there is no other accompanying symptoms. So, what are the reasons for eyelid skipping?

What are the reasons for eyelid skipping

One of the reasons: physiological eyelid jump, many people have experienced, its attack is transient, intermittent, attack time is very short, often just a few seconds, beating degree is not serious. Most of them are caused by insufficient rest, fatigue or eating irritating food and drugs. This kind of eyelid jump, does not affect health, has nothing to do with misfortune.

The second reason: the eyelid skipping caused by pathological reasons generally lasts for a long time and blinks a lot. It is a pathological manifestation and often occurs in the elderly with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Because of the vascular sclerosis and distortion of the brain stem, the facial nerve, which controls the movement of eyelid muscles, is compressed by the blood vessels, resulting in continuous abnormal nerve excitation, causing the muscles to contract and the eyes to blink. This is blepharospasm, which is difficult to heal.

The third reason: more seriously, if the patient is in the basal ganglia, the spasm will spread to the mouth, tongue and chin. At this time, patients not only keep blinking, but also accompanied by facial spasm, which is facial spasm. Blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm is a kind of dystonic disease, which is more difficult to self-healing.

matters needing attention

Although eyelid always jump is a common thing, but for our own health, we must find the cause as soon as possible, so as not to bring more harm to ourselves.