The causes of children’s blinking are divided into physiologic and pathologic, physiologic including personal habits, etc., and pathologic including eye diseases, neurological disorders, etc.
1. Physiological reasons: some children have the bad habit of imitating others’ blinking and blinking in order to attract others’ attention, which is not easy to quit over time.
2. Pathological reasons
(1) Ocular diseases: children with conjunctivitis, keratitis, entropion, inverted eyelashes, dry eye and other diseases will blink continuously to relieve their blinking due to continuous stimulation of eye secretions or dryness of the eyeballs.
(2) Neurological disorders: Children with Tourette Syndrome may blink uncontrollably because of disorders of neuromotor physiology.
There are many reasons why children blink all the time, parents should help their children to strengthen eye hygiene, reasonable use of eyes, if the child can not be relieved for a long time the symptoms of blinking, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, as soon as possible to find out the cause of the disease and treatment.