As the saying goes, “the left eye jumps wealth and the right eye jumps disaster”, so some people worry about bad things coming when their right eyelid jumps, and when their left eyelid jumps, they think about picking up money plus buying lottery tickets. The result is obviously neither a big disaster, nor a big fortune. So why does the eyelid still jump? That’s a question for your doctor. The eyelid is called the eyelid. There are two muscles in the eyelid, one is called the orbicularis oculi muscle, which is shaped like a wheel and surrounds the eye, when it contracts the eyelid closes; the other muscle is called the levator palpebralis muscle, when it contracts the eye opens. These two muscles are constantly contracting and relaxing, and the eyes are able to open and close. Normally, our eyes are constantly blinking, which brushes tears onto the cornea and conjunctiva, thus nourishing and protecting the structures on the surface of the eye, except that a person doesn’t feel anything obvious. However, if the nerves in charge of the eyelid muscles are overstimulated, they will command the muscles to contract repeatedly, allowing the eyelids to move continuously, and the person will feel as if the eyelids are jumping. Is eyelid jumping serious? Many people don’t take jumping eyelids seriously. Some people may have had the jumping continuously for a year, but don’t go to the doctor until they develop twitching at the corners of their mouth. If it’s a facial muscle spasm, it won’t be too serious, but frequent twitching in one eye can still be a hindrance to reading the newspaper and so on. In the case of blepharospasm, the problem is even more serious. Facial muscle spasm patients due to abnormal compression of the facial nerve, abnormal nerve impulses caused by abnormal contraction and relaxation of the orbicularis oculi muscle, it leads to facial muscle spasm clinically common two symptoms: 1, frequent blinking: due to the facial nerve root stimulation, out of the cranial back temporal branch of the control of the orbicularis oculi muscle and levator palpebraeus muscle constant contraction and relaxation and cause frequent blinking. It occurs unilaterally in the vast majority of patients, and occasionally occurs bilaterally. 2, persistent eye jumping: the facial nerve innervating these two muscles is stimulated by vascular compression, the two muscles are excited at the same time, there will be repeated contraction, or even spasm or fluttering, the eyelids will be involuntarily jumping. Eyelid jumping is one of the symptoms of facial muscle spasm, facial muscle spasm clinically manifested as paroxysmal involuntary twitching of the facial muscles of the hemifacial side, the vast majority of the twitching is limited to one side of the face, because the facial nerve out of the skull is divided into the temporal branch, the zygomatic branch, the cheek branch and the cervical branch, therefore, there are mainly blinking, eye jumping, facial twitching, the corners of the mouth twitching, and so on the four symptoms. The zygomatic branch of the facial nerve controls facial muscle movement and the buccal branch controls mouth muscle movement. When the facial nerve is abnormally compressed, abnormal nerve impulses cause abnormal contraction and relaxation of these two parts of the muscle will cause two other symptoms: Facial twitching: mainly dominate the facial muscle movement of the zygomatic branch of the facial nerve abnormal impulses caused by the frequent twitching of the face. Twitching at the corners of the mouth: it is mainly caused by the abnormal impulses of the buccal branch of the facial nerve, which innervates the movement of the facial muscles, causing the corners of the mouth to twitch or tilt frequently, and in severe cases, it may involve the neck and shoulder muscles. Other symptoms: A few patients have mild pain in the face during convulsions (called convulsive pain), and individual patients may also have headache, tinnitus and deafness on the sick side. Some patients may suffer from facial muscle weakness, atrophy and loss of taste in the front 2/3 of the tongue due to prolonged convulsions. Facial muscle spasm patients can appear above symptoms, if you have the above symptoms should be timely to the hospital for examination and diagnosis, so as not to delay the treatment time.