Who knows what it means to keep jumping eyelids?

Why do eyelids jump? Is it really like the older generation said that the left eye jumps for happiness and the right eye jumps for disaster?

Maybe everyone has had the feeling of eyelid jumping. It's not a disease, but it's really uncomfortable. There is a folk saying that jumping eyelids can be good or bad, and there is another saying that "jumping with the left eye is a fortune, and jumping with the right eye is a curse." So, why do eyelids jump? Is there any way to prevent it?

In human anatomy, eyelids are called "eyelids". There are two kinds of muscles in eyelids. One is called orbicularis oculi muscle, which is shaped like a wheel and surrounds the eyes. The eyelids close when contracting, and the other is called levator palpebrae superioris muscle, which opens when contracting.

With the continuous contraction and relaxation of these two muscles, eyes can be opened and closed. Once stimulated by a certain factor, these two muscles will get excited, leading to repeated contraction, even spasm or tremor, so people obviously feel that the eyelids are beating involuntarily and it is difficult to control. This is eyelid jump.

The most common cause of eyelid jump is excessive use of eyes, causing eye fatigue, or fatigue, mental tension and so on. For example, the computer plays for too long; Use your eyes for too long in strong or weak light; The mental stress before the exam was too great, and the questions were poorly done, which made the eyelids jump involuntarily. At this point, as long as you take a short rest and close your eyes, the symptoms will disappear naturally, and you don't have to be nervous or uneasy. If the patient has ametropia, myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism, and does not wear appropriate glasses, which leads to eyelid jumping, it is just to remind you that you can pay for glasses suitable for your eyesight.

If the above factors are excluded, the eyelids are constantly beating and getting worse, which may be caused by eye diseases. Please ask an ophthalmologist to find the cause carefully for you and give you symptomatic treatment.

"Eyelid" is called "eyelid" in medicine. There is a thin muscle in people's eyelids, called "orbicularis oculi muscle", which grows in a wheel shape around the eyes, and its contraction causes eyelid contraction. If for some reason, a certain part of the orbicularis oculi muscle fiber suddenly contracts repeatedly, there will be a phenomenon of "eyelid jump", which is called "eyelid tremor" in medicine.

As the saying goes, "the left eye jumps over wealth and the right eye jumps over disaster." However, there is no scientific basis for this statement. "Eyelid jump" is actually a harbinger of a certain disease in the human body.

Eyelid jump is actually an alarm that reflects human health. For the vast majority of people with simple eyelid jump, the common reasons are excessive eye use or fatigue, excessive mental tension and so on. In addition, eye ametropia, myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism, intraocular foreign bodies, trichiasis, conjunctivitis and keratitis can also cause eyelid jump.

Most eyelid beats caused by eye muscle fatigue and mental stress can be recovered by relaxing stress and proper rest. If the eyelid beats due to ametropia, it can usually be relieved by vision correction. If you have an eye disease, you can find an ophthalmologist to cure it. If the eyelid pulsation is aggravated, leading to eyelid spasm or hemifacial spasm, neurosurgeon is needed for treatment.

In life, many people have had the experience of eyelid jumping. Beating mostly occurs in the upper eyelid and sometimes in the lower eyelid, which is not controlled by human thinking and consciousness. Eyelid jump is divided into physiological and psychological, the former usually passes quickly and sometimes lasts for several days; The latter is more serious and progressive.

People often say that "the left eye jumps for money and the right eye jumps for disaster", so jumping eyelids will worry many people. But the doctor doesn't think so. "Eyelid jumping is actually a manifestation of increased nerve excitability. I have also had such an experience, and medicine does not believe these folk sayings. " Dean Zuo Huanyan of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University said.

Although eyelid jump is not life-threatening, it greatly reduces the quality of work and life. The doctor reminds you to see a doctor as soon as possible if your eyelids keep beating and don't relieve.

Eyelid jump is divided into physiological and psychological.

It is understood that the common causes of eyelid beating in life include overwork, mental stress, eye diseases or improper use of eyes, trauma and so on. These factors will stimulate the nerve of the eye, lead to muscle contraction, and then cause muscle pulsation.

Physiological eyelid jump is generally mild. If you are overworked, you will get better after rest. Even if you have inflammation and other reasons, you can relieve it through treatment. The cause of eyelid jump after hemifacial spasm is in the brain, which is difficult to heal itself, and the development trend is progressive aggravation.

According to Dr. Zuo Huanyan, eyelid jump caused by hemifacial spasm is mostly unilateral, and rarely bilateral. Patients with hemifacial spasm usually start with eyelid jump. After a few months or a year, their mouths began to twitch, twitching to a certain extent, their eyes could not be opened, and their mouths tilted to one side. At this point, their condition is very serious. At the same time, patients are inconvenient to see things and have great psychological pressure.

Severe cardiofacial spasm

Zuo Huanyan believes that if the eyelid jump lasts for a short time, it is a normal physiological transient phenomenon and does not need special treatment. Just close your eyes and have a rest. However, if it lasts for a long time, even if the eyes jump and bring troubles to life, you should see a doctor and find out the reason.

It is understood that many patients who come to the hospital have their eyelids beating for several years. For example, some patients have a little jump in the upper eyelid at first, and then slowly develop downward, and the lower eyelid begins to jump, and even the corners of the mouth begin to twitch. When they don't dance well, they feel sick and dizzy. These patients suffer from hemifacial spasm, either on the left, right or both sides.

The root of hemifacial spasm lies in the brain.

According to Zuo Huanyan, one of the best treatments for severe hemifacial spasm is microvascular decompression, and this blood vessel is removed from the excited nerve. "In the past, due to the lack of understanding of hemifacial spasm, the treatment method was to try to destroy nerves and find ways to close or cut off some nerves. Since the cause is clear, let's remove the blood vessels from the nerves. " He said.

It is understood that this kind of operation is minimally invasive and requires a small hole in the skull. The operation steps are as follows: make a small hole of 1.5 cm behind the ear of the patient with hemifacial spasm; Find the blood vessels that oppress the facial nerve under the microscope, then separate the nerve from the blood vessels, and then put a special pad to relieve the nerve compression.

Some patients' eyes continue to beat for some time after operation. This is because nerve recovery after vascular resection needs a process, and it will stop beating completely when it grows up. According to reports, the operation time usually takes 1 hour.

Will it recur after eyelid jumping surgery?

It is understood that as far as the current medical technology is concerned, the probability of recurrence is very small. At the same time, with the improvement of surgical level, the incidence of common complications-facial paralysis has been very low, and it is generally impossible to cause permanent facial paralysis.

Generally speaking, whether you do it early or late, you can stop beating. However, facial muscle spasm lasts for a long time, and facial muscles are prone to atrophy and deformation. If muscle deformation occurs, traces can be seen after operation. The doctor suggested that hemifacial spasm should be operated as soon as possible.

But the doctor pointed out that if it is an injury, such as facial spasm caused by a car accident, then the injury has damaged the nerve. So it depends on the patient's condition to analyze how to treat it. It is also revealed that the current cost of this operation is about 6.5438+0.2 million yuan.