There is a saying in China: the left eye jumps wealth, the right eye jumps disaster.
I have to say that the eyelid jump must have appeared many people before, if the jump is the left eyelid, the mood of this day may be happy because of this sentence. And if you jump the right eyelid, you will comfort yourself: feudal superstition is not, we are all materialists!
However, have you ever wondered why people have the symptoms of eyelid jumping?
In fact, muscles are not only distributed on the limbs, but also on the eyelids, including orbicularis orbicularis muscles, lifting eyelid muscles and so on. Among them, the function of the orbicularis orbicularis muscle is to control the closure of the eyeball, and through the small action of blinking, let the tears and secretions evenly apply to the eyeballs, playing a protective role.
When the nerves that control the muscles are highly excited, it will cause the muscle fibers to twitch and contract involuntarily for a short period of time, and affect the surrounding skin, followed by the symptoms of eyelid jumping.
Eyelid jumping in the clinic can be divided into two categories of physiology and pathology, physiological eyelid jumping and long-term staying up late, long-term use of eyes leading to eye fatigue, mental over-tension and other factors.
Usually, physiological eyelid jumping does not last long, is not regular, and stops in just a few seconds. If you have recently experienced recurrent eyelid jumping symptoms, you need to be vigilant, it is likely to be related to the following 4 diseases:
1. Do not ignore tumors
Tumors do not directly affect the nervous system, but if there is a tumor near the patient's facial nerve, or a tumor in the brain, it may compress and destroy the peripheral nerves, resulting in nerve dysfunction in the eyelids, face or corners of the mouth, and uncontrolled muscle twitching.
For example, facial neuromas, benign and malignant tumors of the brain, salivary adenomoral tumors, etc., may be combined with the symptoms of eyelid jumping;
2. There is inflammation
The eyeball is directly exposed to the air, if you do not pay attention to eye hygiene, it may cause eye inflammation, the most common inflammation is conjunctivitis, keratitis and the like.
After the eye infection, patients will not only frequently have blinking symptoms, but also accompanied by itching of the eyes, redness of the sclera, foreign body sensation of the eyeball, increased ocular secretions, eyelid jumping and other symptoms;
3. Magnesium deficiency
Magnesium is one of the essential elements of the human body, it is widely present in various tissues of the human body, has been involved in many biological processes, it has the function of maintaining muscle contraction, regulating nerve stress.
Moreover, magnesium can also activate many enzymes in the body, which can promote energy metabolism. If the body lacks magnesium and suffers from magnesium deficiency, there will be muscle twitches, spasms and other symptoms, and the muscles around the eyelids will also be affected;
4. Spasm of facial muscles
This situation is easy to occur in middle-aged and elderly people who have long-term three-high diseases and have a history of atherosclerosis. Because the patient's arterial blood vessels have become atherosclerosis and the lumen has become narrow, organs and tissues are prone to hypothymemia.
At the same time, the diseased blood vessels may also cause compression on the facial nerves, resulting in continuous sexual excitement of the nerves, constant relaxation and contraction of muscles, and then frequent blinking, eyelid beating and other symptoms.
All in all, the left eye jumping wealth and the right eye jumping disaster is a feudal superstition, which is completely undesirable and untrustworthy. If it is just an occasional eyelid beat, there is no need to be overly nervous, it is only physiological in most cases.
However, if the eyelids are frequently beating recently and accompanied by other physical discomforts, this may be related to the disease, and it is necessary to be vigilant and seek medical examination in time.