Excessive eye blinking?

Ds is 4 and just started doing this pretty frequently. He's squeezing his eyes hard during a blink. Anyone's child have this happen out of nowhere? Did it go away?

Excessive eye blinking?

my nephew did this for a while. He doesnt do it as much now. My sister thought it was allergies. But i think it was just a tic.

Message edited 4/4/2017 4:53:39 PM.

Excessive eye blinking?

my daughter did this around 3.5... she needed glasses

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Sounds like a tic... but I'd see your ped to be sure not anything else.

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Last summer, my DD started "stretching" her eyes wide and squeezing them shut a lot. We took her to the eye doctor because we thought she developed a tick or maybe needed glasses. Turns out she had dry eyes and just needed some OTC eye drops, we used "Renew". At first she needed the drops twice a day, then went down to once a day, then every other day, and now she just uses them as needed. The eye stretching and squeezing completely resolved itself once she started the eye drops.

I would make an appt with the eye doctor to have it checked it, could be nothing or could be something. It's worth the visit to know either way.

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My DS did it for a short time aroudn 3.5. It happened more when he was nervous i noticed. Then it just stopped

Excessive eye blinking?

My DS did this!!! For like almost a year and then completely went away. We took him to the dr and eye dr, and he was fine. They said maybe he has dry eyes/ allergies, but most likely is that its really common at that age. The dr said they are starting to form their first habits and may have done it a little bit and just continued doing it, and that he would outgrow it, and he did!

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We have an eye appt next week. I tried putting eye drops in his eyes today in case they were dry & he threw the mother of all fits so it should be a fun visit.