What are the reasons why children shake their heads and blink?

The healthy growth of children is very important. Many parents will pay special attention to their baby's health. Parents will feel at ease only when their baby is healthy. Some children often shake their heads and blink their eyes, which makes parents feel very worried. They don’t know what causes this phenomenon and worry whether it will cause adverse effects on the body. What are the reasons why children shake their heads and blink? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Common reasons for children's frequent blinking

1. Inflammatory stimulation

This is the most common cause, which may be caused by infections such as bacteria, viruses, chlamydia, etc., such as conjunctivitis, keratitis, etc.

2. Congenital entropion and trichiasis

Some children are born with inverted eyelids (medically known as eyelids), which causes the eyelashes to fall on the surface of the eyeball, irritating the cornea (the surface of the black eyeball) and causing bleeding.

3. ADHD in children

It refers to the sudden, involuntary contraction movement of a part of the child's body, such as blinking, frowning, twisting the mouth, shrugging, etc., as well as changes in inattention and hyperactive behavior.

4. Blinking due to eye fatigue

It includes visual fatigue, such as refractive errors, especially uncorrected hyperopia, myopia, and astigmatism, which cause visual fatigue of the eyes.

5. Neurogenic blinking

This is caused by the frequent contraction of the nerve fibers that control the orbicularis oculi muscle after being stimulated.

6. Habitual Blinking

Some children have a history of frequent blinking due to one of the above causes and can be treated. After the cause of the disease is eliminated, the habit of frequent blinking still remains.

2. How to take care of your eyes in daily life?

1. Do eye exercises. After studying or reading magazines for a long time, doing eye exercises can speed up blood circulation in the eyes and reduce fatigue of eye muscles.

2. Try not to use medicine to relieve eye fatigue, as this will cause dependence. Natural is best. Besides, all medicines are poisonous.

3. During breaks, you can look into the distance to adjust the lens of your eyes and reduce lens fatigue. You can look at the stars at night, which can also help relieve eye fatigue.

4. Eat less garlic, because garlic tastes spicy and damages the blood, and blood can nourish the liver. The visual function of the eyes mainly comes from the liver, so eating garlic is not good for the eyes. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that "garlic has many benefits but harms the eyes."

5. Eat more chicken liver. Chicken liver is rich in vitamin A, which can protect the retina well.

3. Notes

Don't look at your phone or computer for a long time.