Many people have had the experience of eyelid jumping, people often say "left eye jumping wealth, right eye jumping disaster", eyelid jumping really indicates something?
Today we will take a look at what might be going on with eyelid jumping from a medical point of view. Eyelid beating, in fact, is the spasm twitching of the eyelids, which can often be divided into two situations: physiological eyelid beating and pathological eyelid beating.
/ Physiological eyelid beats /
Physiological eyelid beating, often due to a long period of staying up late, fatigue, excessive use of the eyes, anxiety, anger, etc., everyone may appear, not necessarily indicating any disease.
In general, most physiological eyelid beats can be recovered on their own without the need for special treatment.
You can promote recovery by proper rest, local heat compresses, massage, or you can take some B vitamins, the symptoms can gradually alleviate, disappear, and will not continue to worsen, so there is no need to panic too much.
But some people may be worried, thinking that the eyelid beat is a prelude to facial paralysis.
For this question, Wang Lin, director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University, replied, "Eyelid jumping is not a prelude to facial paralysis, and it has little to do with facial paralysis."
Facial paralysis is more caused by viral infection, cold and wind, local trauma, tumor, or cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral ischemia, etc. The onset is usually sudden and may be preceded by tingling or tightness in the face, forehead, or scalp, or without a clear aura.
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/ Pathological eyelid thrapnosis /
If the eyelid beats cannot be relieved by rest, the symptoms become more and more severe, the scope is getting wider and wider, and the recurrence of the attack for a long time, especially for more than three months, may be pathological.
If the eyelids are throbbing unilaterally and the tics are getting wider and wider, with concomitant facial, jaw, or neck twitches, it may be caused by facial muscle spasms.
Facial muscle spasms usually occur slowly, most of which are caused by blood vessels pressing on the roots of the facial nerves, and a small part due to tumors or other unknown causes.
Timely treatment by microvascular decompression surgery and other methods, the radical cure rate of facial muscle spasm can reach 98%, and if the treatment is not timely, it may eventually lead to paralytic facial paralysis.
If the eyelids are jumpy on both sides and have facial or jaw twitches for more than 3 months, it may indicate Major syndrome.
Major syndrome is a segmental dystonia disease, similar to Parkinson's disease, which is a disease of the degenerative aging of the nervous system, usually can not be cured, and can only be relieved by drugs, local injections of botulinum toxin, surgery and other methods.
Major syndrome is often confused with facial muscle spasm because the eyelid beats in Major syndrome may also occur first unilaterally and then bilaterally.
However, Major syndrome usually appears in the early stage of dry eyes, itchy eyes, frequent blinking, and then gradually can develop into open eyes, breathing, swallowing, speaking difficulties, and may also be afraid of light, wind, so often go out is more serious, the course of the disease is often more than 3 months or even half a year, gradually worsening.
From the perspective of the time of eyelid beating, facial muscle spasm will have intermittent periods, that is, there will be a period of time without jumping, just like ordinary people; and in patients with Major syndrome, eyelid beats often have no intermittent period.
In summary, if the eyelid beat cannot be relieved for a long time, and the symptoms become heavier and more, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
References: Medical Microvision official website - Lu Yan Chief Physician "Ophthalmic Symptoms - Eyelid Problems", Wang Lin Chief Physician "Facial Paralysis", "Mei Jie Syndrome"