Some children are always blinking, so parents can’t help but wonder if it’s caused by their child’s dry eyes. In fact, when you encounter such a situation, parents may want to understand the causes of their child’s frequent blinking first, and then treat the symptoms. A. What is wrong with children blinking frequently? 1, congenital eye inversion or inverted eyelashes: Some children have congenital eyelid inversion, which makes the eyelashes fall back on the surface of the eye, stimulating the cornea and causing blinking and tears, and frequent blinking in this case can be found as long as parents are careful to observe. Many cases of eyelid entropion will gradually decrease as the child grows up and heal on their own by the age of 4, but in severe cases, surgery is needed to correct the condition. 2. Habitual blinking: It is less common in infants and toddlers within 3 years of age, but older children are more likely to have it; this is because the child usually has nothing unusual, but when adults or outsiders are present, they squeeze their eyebrows in order to get the attention of adults, or if there are people around who blink frequently, the child imitates him, and as a result, habitual frequent blinking is slowly formed. In this case, parents should promptly remind and help their children to control themselves. 3. Eye inflammation or stimulation by foreign objects: frequent blinking can also occur due to dusty weather, bad habits such as rubbing the eyes with unclean hands, infection by bacteria, viruses, chlamydia, etc., or keratitis or conjunctivitis caused by foreign objects splashing into the eyes. In addition to increased blinking, there are also manifestations such as red, itchy eyes, increased secretions and tearing, and children who are older may complain of eye discomfort or eye pain. 4, eye fatigue caused by blinking: electronic products in the convenience of people at the same time, but also brought some drawbacks. Some children have different degrees of eye discomfort due to excessive use of electronic products such as TVs, computers, cell phones, pads, etc. The main symptoms are dry eyes, itchy eyes, burning foreign body sensation in the eyes, blurred vision, decreased vision, eye distention, orbital pain, and other symptoms. This is mainly due to the fast changing speed and flickering images of TV and games, which can cause the visual center to lose balance after staring for a long time, and the increased excitability leads to continuous contraction and spasm of the extraocular muscles, and the transient eyes are relatively enhanced as a feedback defense action. For this case, the child’s school life should be properly arranged, so that children should not exceed 40 minutes of continuous near eye time, minimize the use of electronic products (the total time should not exceed 1 hour per day), optometry and glasses if necessary, timely refraction correction of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and other phenomena to avoid the development of amblyopia. 5, children’s tic disorder: children’s tic disorder is a multi-group muscle involuntary twitching, in the eye mainly manifested as frequent transient or involuntary transient, in addition, can also be accompanied by multi-site twitching or compound motor twitching, such as frowning, crooked mouth, shrugging shoulders, as well as inattention and hyperactive behavior change, some children will also make strange sounds, and even cursing, swearing, etc.. This disease seriously affects the child’s normal life, learning and mental health, in treatment to correct the main, parents should actively cooperate with doctors, timely remind and help children self-control, but do not be too hasty, do not reprimand the child scold, so as not to cause the child psychological tension and aggravate the disease. What should parents do when their children blink frequently? In fact, the cause of frequent blinking in children is not a single one, most of the above reasons are the result of a combination of effects, so comprehensive treatment is needed to obtain good results. Specifically: 1, reduce the child’s mental and psychological burden If the child is usually under too much pressure to learn or if mom or dad enrolls in too many early childhood classes, then mom or dad should pay attention to the child to properly reduce the burden, you can first transfer the child’s mental pressure, using the right method to help the child overcome psychological barriers, do not scold the child, otherwise it will only aggravate the condition; 2, form good living eye habits Let the child Reduce video stimulation such as watching computers to avoid visual fatigue and dry eye; 3, reasonable nutrition and dietary structure Give your child more vegetables and fruits, correct partiality; eat less spicy and stimulating, fried food and food that can easily lead to mental excitement, such as coffee, cola, chocolate, etc.; 4, reasonable medication For the above causes can be appropriate drops of artificial tears for symptomatic treatment, for those who can find the cause to treat the cause. Most children can be cured through psychological counseling and localized eye drops, and for children with tics or blinking that do not heal over time, treatment with Chinese medicine and acupuncture can be very effective. Children with severe tics need to be seen by a neurologist.