Reasons why children keep blinking

Parents will be very worried about any abnormal reactions in their children's bodies, because various abnormal reactions in their children's bodies may be caused by congenital diseases or inappropriate acquired lifestyle habits. It is a common phenomenon that children keep blinking. Since it is related to ADHD, it is understandable that parents want to know the reason why their children keep blinking.

reason

1. The most common cause of the disease is watching TV, playing computer games, and playing video games for a long time. The main complaint is uncontrollable frequent blinking accompanied by varying degrees of foreign body sensation, redness, itching, dryness and other symptoms in the eyes. Some children have been using chloramphenicol, Runshu and other eye drops for a long time before seeing a doctor.

2. Ocular surface diseases, including trachoma, chronic conjunctivitis, keratitis, trichiasis and other common eye diseases.

3. Children suffering from lead poisoning or picky eating lack trace elements. For example, lead poisoning can lead to symptoms such as blinking, twitching of the mouth, irritability, and inattention.

4. Neurological diseases: Some children may experience blinking and involuntary facial twitching due to spasms of the face and orbicularis oculi muscle. Need to be transferred to neurology department for treatment.

Frequent blinking test for children

Check children's frequent blinking: funduscopy and intraocular pressure.

Frequent blinking in children may also be a symptom of tics. The symptoms of tics are varied. Simple motor tics are commonly manifested as blinking, eye rolling, tilting the nose, sticking out the tongue, turning the head, nodding, stretching the neck, opening the mouth, shrugging the shoulders, straightening the abdomen, and inhaling. The complex tics of motor tics in children present in strange and diverse postures and ugly shapes, such as impulsive touching of people or objects, stabbing movements, stomping of feet, whole body shaking as if electrocuted, walking in circles, turning the waist and hips, squatting and kneeling, or a series of repeated continuous meaningless movements.

Differential diagnosis of frequent blinking in children

The differential diagnosis should be made with the following symptoms:

Mandibular blink syndrome is a disease symptom in which the patient has unilateral ptosis and superior rectus muscle insufficiency, but the ptosis disappears with mandibular movements such as opening the mouth and chewing... If the ptosis disappears when the patient opens his mouth or chews, it can be diagnosed as mandibular blink syndrome.

It is caused by congenital abnormal connection between the trigeminal nerve and the oculomotor nerve center or terminals and is usually unilateral. When the mouth is opened and the jaw moves left and right, the palpebral fissure changes differently: the upper eyelid is lifted, and the palpebral fissure opens wider, even larger than the healthy eye; when the mouth is closed, the upper eyelid returns to its drooping position. When chewing, the eyelids blink continuously with the chewing movement of the jaw. Partial ophthalmoplegia, esotropia.