how to cure eye twitching?
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(m)\n\nHave you ever wondered what makes the muscles around your eyes twitch and flutter from time to time? The answer to this question is relatively simple. And so is the remedy. \n\nAll of the six hundred plus muscles that exist throughout your body and head are supplied by nerves that originate in your brain. If you take it from the top, your brain induces a signal that travels down through your brain stem and spinal cord and out through peripheral nerves to reach each of your muscles. The flow of electricity through this pathway is what allows you to have motor control over your muscles.\n\nYour brain and spinal cord are much like the water tower in your city. Both are full of energy and just itching to gush electricity and water out through peripheral nerves and city water pipes, respectively. In the case of your municipal water supply, you are able to regulate how much water comes out of the pipes in your home with your faucets. In the case of your body, your peripheral nerves are your faucets and must regulate how much electron flow is allowed to come out of your spinal cord and travel to your muscles. \n\nGetting back to what causes a twitching eye, the twitching muscle in question is called your orbicularis oculi muscle. This muscle has two parts: a palpebral part that allows you to open and close your eyelids, and an orbital part that allows you to have a wide range of expressive looks with your eyes, a good example being when your eyes open really wide with surprise.\n\nThe peripheral nerve that acts as a faucet for your orbicularis oculi muscle is called the temporal branch of your facial nerve. So, for you to open and close your eyelids or open your eyes as wide as possible, the temporal branch of your facial nerve must allow just enough electricity to come out from your brain and brain stem and travel to your orbicularis oculi muscle. \n\nIn the vast majority of cases of a twitching or fluttering eye, the problem is with the temporal branch of the facial nerve. When this nerve becomes fatigued, it acts like a worn down water faucet - the flow of electrons is no longer smooth and even. The result is that your orbicularis oculi muscle will twitch or flutter as it receives jolts of uncontrolled information from your brain and brain stem. \n\nIn case you missed it, I just gave you the answer to the most common cause of a twitching eye: fatigue. And fatigue goes hand in hand with stress. \n\nWhen the muscles that surround your eyes twitch and flutter, chances are very good that you are fatigued and stressed. So the remedy for a twitching eye is rest and relaxation.\n\nNot muscle relaxants, not pain killers, not chiropractic adjustments.
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Try putting drops in your eyes like visine for allergies. It happens to me once in awhile and it's very irritating (no pun intended) but the visine helps. It could be caused from dust, something else in the air, I don't know for sure but again eye drops help.
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you can try some eye drops...it will sting when you first use it, but will offer relief.  also, just get a cool pack, or a cool wet rag and turn the lights off and put it on your eyes....just take a deep breath and relax.  soon you will fall asleep and you will feel better.  your eyes will be puffy in the morning...cool cucumbers will help reduce the puffiness...also try something like preperation H under your eyes to reduce puffiness.  Sorry to hear you're having problems....we all go through it!  Just try and remember that things will get better...just relax and take a deep breath and remember the good things in your life.
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For tired or puffed eyes, place a cotton pad soaked in chilled rose water. Keeping thin slices of cucumber ready in the refrigerator beforehand is ideal. \n\nGrated cucumber, by itself or mixed with carrot juice, can be spread under the eye, to reduce black circles and sagging skin.
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rub your eyes (like you do when you are tired or just wake up) until they are a little red, then use a dab of Vicks vapor rub below the eye. (NOT in your eye, but below)
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It could be a tic. Have you ever seen anyone and you were talking to them and their eye started twitching? Thats a tic, if it doesn't stop I suggest you go to the hospital. It isn't anything  fatal, just annoying and I am sure they could give you something to take care of it. It could just be nerves as well.
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'Palming.'To rest and relax your eyes, sit comfortably in front of a table, resting your elbows on a stack of cushions high enough to bring your palms easily to your eyes without stooping forward or looking up. Close your eyes and cover them with your cupped palms to exclude light, avoiding pressure on the sockets. Breathe slowly and evenly, relaxing and imagining deep blackness. Begin by doing this for 10 minutes, two or three times a day. \n\n'Swinging.' Relax and keep the eyes mobile. Stand up and focus on a distant point, swaying gently from side to side. Repeat 100 times daily, blinking as you sway. Blinking cleans and lubricates the eyes, which is especially important if you spend a lot of time in front of a computer. \n\n'Colour day.' You may be asked to have a 'colour day.' Choose a colour and look out for it throughout the day. When you see it, be aware of the colour rather than the form. For example, if it's a red truck, experience the shade of red, not the truck. \n\n'Sunning' Try to do this once a day. It requires a sunny day, or a good desk lamp with an incandescent bulb. The exercise is simple. Close your eyes. Look directly at the sun through \nyour closed eyes. While facing the sun, slowly rotate your head from side to side as far as you can. \nThis gets the sunlight on the peripheral vision, and it helps bring more blood circulation to your neck. Do this for 3 to 5 minutes. It's amazing, even on a cold day, how warm the sun feels on your eyes.\n\nEYE EXERCISE TIPS\n\n- General tips when doing eye exercises Please take off your glasses or contact lenses, you will then feel more comfortable and relaxed. \n \n- When doing the exercises, intensely concentrate on your eyes. Feel them working and coming to life again! \n    \n- Do them on a regular basis, e.g. ideally 3 times a day. The results will be better.
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A fasciculation (or "muscle twitching") is a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction (twitching) visible under the skin arising from the spontaneous discharge of a bundle of skeletal muscle fibres. Fasciculations have a variety of cause, the majority of which are benign.\n\nConditions\nThe most common cause of persistent fasciculations is benign fasciculation syndrome. \nWerdnig-Hoffman disease \npoisoning by organophosphates \n\nMedications\nOther risk factors may include the use of anticholinergic drugs over long periods—in particular, ethanolamines such as Benadryl, used as an antihistamine and sleep aid, and Dramamine for nausea and motion sickness. Persons with BFS may experience paraesthesia shortly after taking such medication, then hours later as it wears off (especially upon awaking), fasciculation episodes begin.\n\nStimulants can cause fasciculations directly. These include caffeine, pseudoephedrine (Sudafed®), and albuterol/salbutamol (Proventil®, Combivent®, Ventolin®). Medications used to treat attention deficit disorder often contain stimulants as well, and are common causes of benign fasciculations.\n\nTreatment\nInadequate magnesium intake can cause fasciculations, especially after a magnesium loss due to severe diarrhea. Over-exertion is another risk factor for magnesium loss. As many as 80% of the population does not get the recommended daily amount of magnesium; this may be a common cause. Treatment is with supplements or increased intake of foods rich in magnesium, especially almonds and other nuts, and bananas. Ironically, magnesium supplements may result in diarrhea and more magnesium loss.\n\n---------\n\nOccasionally, your eyelid may twitch at random. This involuntary twitching of the eyelid muscle usually lasts less than a minute. But it can be bothersome. The cause of eyelid twitching isn't known. However, it's often associated with fatigue and stress. You may be able to relieve the twitching by gently massaging the affected eyelid.\n\nAn eyelid twitch is usually harmless. Rarely, a twitching eyelid can be a symptom of a muscle or nerve disease. But if that is the case, it's usually accompanied by other symptoms.
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Drink more water and get more sleep. You could also try putting used tea bags, cucumbers, or a ziploc baggie of cold water on your eyes for a while.
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Blepharitis, can be treated by care-full attention to hygiene of the eyes. Try using a Baby hair shampoo, mix approx. 1 teaspoon of shampoo with a half pint of fairly warm water, then take some cotton buds and dip them in the solution, wipe across the closed eyelid, from the nose out over and discard the cotton bud, use one cotton bud per wipe. repeat this 3 times on each eye, the condition should clear up in a few days. Continued eye hygiene is recommended to prevent recurrence.
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u need sleep trust me i know. i have had the eye twitching before. you just need sleep try to get a few extra hours in tonight and maybe tomorrow night too. it will not only make ur twitch go away but make you feel better.\ngood luck.
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There is no "cure", my moms a eye doctor and we talked about it before, there are certain types of drops and medicines to kind of calm the redness and itching down, but if you get it Pink eye should go away any were from 1 week to a month.
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Well, the question actually asked WHY his eyelids twitched.\n\nThe most common things that make the muscle in your eyelid twitch are fatigue, stress, and caffeine. Once spasms begin, they may continue off and on for a few days. Then, they disappear. Most people experience this type of eyelid twitch on occasion and find it very annoying. In most cases, you won't even notice when the twitch has stopped.\n\nMore severe contractions, where the eyelid completely closes, are possible. These can be caused by irritation of the surface of the eye (cornea) or the membranes lining the eyelids (conjunctiva).\n\nSometimes, the reason your eyelid is twitching cannot be identified. This form of eyelid twitching lasts much longer, is often very uncomfortable, and can also cause your eyelids to close completely.\n\nMore Here:\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000756.htm\n\nAs for the tingling... there are various reasons:\n\nCommon Causes: \nLocal injury to the nerves under the skin\nLack of blood supply to the area\nPressure on the nerves, caused by the following: \n  Herniated disk\n  Tumor\n  Abscesses\n  Arthritic bones\nToxic action on nerves (such as the effects of lead, alcohol, and tobacco)\nDiabetes and other metabolic abnormalities\nVitamin B12 deficiency\nHypothyroidism\nCarpal tunnel syndrome\nDrugs \n  Chemotherapeutic agents\n  Chloroquine\n  D-penicillamine\n  Isoniazid\n  Nitrofurantoin\n  Parenteral gold therapy\n  Phenytoin\nLong-term radiation\nTransient ischemic attack (TIA)\nStroke\nMultiple sclerosis (a less common cause of numbness)\nSeizures\nMigraine  \n\nhttp://www.shands.org/health/information/article/003206.htm
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Old wives tale...\n\nYou will see someone you haven't seen in a long time...\n\nOh... here is the medical explaination...\n\nEyelid Twitch.\nThe cause of minor eyelid twitching is unknown. A slight spasm of the lower eyelid or even both eyelids is common and of no concern.
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go to the optitians for an eye test check your diet which foods may be causing the problem and go to the doctors to be safe
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Its usually a sign that your eyes are tired or strained. For others in can be a nervous twitch  as a reaction to stress.\n\nMost of the time its the former. Adding more light at your workstation (I presume its happening after you've been in front of a computer for hours) and resting your eyes by looking at something else for a while will relieve the tiredness. Even shifting your eyes to looking at the bulletin board or looking at larger print letters will relieve your eyes. Also,  do some eye exercises to help get the blood flowing in the eye muscles. \n\nIf its the latter, you'll have to figure out what's causing the stress and either relieve it or adjust to it.
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Drink lots of water and avoid caffeine.\n\nDim the lights, don't play on the computer or watch TV.  Just turn on the radio to something relaxing and close your eyes.