What to do if your child blinks frequently

Children’s frequent blinking may be due to dry eye, conjunctivitis, inverted eyelashes and other common causes of triggering, need to take targeted treatment, for example, dry eye needs to be artificial tears, conjunctivitis often need to use moxifloxacin eye drops and so on. Dry eye syndrome is not uncommon in children, usually in the summer when the air conditioning or winter heating, and this time the air is dry, the child will have obvious dryness and foreign body sensation in the eye and induced blinking phenomenon, the need for artificial tears to eliminate the symptoms of dry eye, in order to alleviate or eliminate the phenomenon of blinking, commonly used drugs are polyvinyl alcohol eye drops, polyethylene glycol eye drops, etc.. Conjunctivitis formation and eye contamination related, because of inflammation and irritation of the conjunctiva to produce a foreign body sensation induced blinking, the need to use anti-infective drugs to eliminate inflammation treatment, children commonly used are tobramycin eye drops, moxifloxacin eye drops, and so on. Inverted eyelashes are usually associated with excessive obesity, congenital developmental abnormalities, etc., because the eyelashes will contact and scratch the cornea and blinking occurs, and need to be extracted from the inverted eyelashes or to do blepharoplasty to relieve the symptoms of blinking. The patient needs to go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital to find out the cause of the symptoms, and then the doctor will take targeted treatment.