Drinking coffee can reduce eyelid twitching

A recent study by Italian scientists shows that drinking coffee can fight eyelid twitches. According to the report of this research group in the journal Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, drinking one or two cups of coffee a day will reduce the risk of this disease.

The team observed 166 coffee drinking habits and smoking among people with this disease.

Eyelid twitching is a form of muscle relaxant disease. Patients experience uncontrollable eyelid seizures; In some serious cases, they were unable to see and were almost blind at the time.

The disease often affects middle-aged people, from 50 to 70 years old. The first symptom is the phenomenon of irritating and irritating eyes, sensitivity to light and continuous blinking.

Professor Giovanni Defazio and colleagues at the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Bari (Italy), said an earlier study showed that smoking works to prevent this symptom.

Scientists compared the habit of smoking and drinking coffee in the group of patients with eyelid twitches with the group of half-seizure patients and their relatives. Current research does not see a positive effect of smoking, but for people who drink coffee, the disease is less developed.

People who drank more coffee than those who had seizures were about 1.7 years later when their coffee intake drank more than one cup a day.

Professor Defazio said: "Our findings raise doubts about the connection between smoking and eye convulsions, but insists that coffee is an effective protective factor from this disease."

Professor David Wong, spokesperson for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, said that doing such research is very rare. According to Mr. Wong, 'sometimes the disease is so bad that patients have to close their eyes for a long time and impair their vision seriously. Eye doctors treat patients primarily with botulinum. '

Professor Kailash Bhatia, an expert in clinical neurology at London's UCL Institute of Neurology, said that although the study proved to be very good, it should also be assessed.

Dr. Tom Warner, medical advisor of the Muscle Relaxation Association, suggested a larger-scale study to confirm these results.