Patient groups quickly spread the word that there were now effective treatments for previously untreatable motility disorders such as blepharospasm, which can result in functional blindness despite an otherwise normal visual system.
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When OMD is combined with blepharospasm, it may be referred to as Meige s Syndrome named after Henri Meige, the French neurologist who first described the symptoms in detail in 1910.
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Eye exposure to vapor can cause lacrimation ( tears ), blepharospasm ( eyelid twitching ), irritation, itching, burning pain, dry feeling, and sometimes miosis ( pinpoint pupils ).
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He then accidentally discovers that Neelanand Baba's eye twitches due to Blepharospasm, a very rare abnormality causing contraction of the eyelid, which the Punjabi pop singer Manjeet Manchala also suffered from.
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Eye exposure causes lacrimation ( tear production ), burning, irritation, itching, a feeling of grittiness or dryness, blepharospasm ( spasms of the eyelid ), and miosis ( pinpoint pupils ).
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We highlighted : 1 ) symptoms of acute attack such as blepharospasm and whimpering; 2 ) Topography of injuries shows that the eye median area is the most affected ( p < 0, 05 ); 3 ).
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Scott developed the drug to treat strabismus, or cross-eyes, which afflicts about 4 percent of children, and blepharospasm, an uncontrollable closure of the eyes that rendered about 25, 000 Americans functionally blind until the advent of his treatment.
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Dr . Alastair Carruthers, a dermatologist in Vancouver, British Columbia, began using the toxin cosmetically in 1988 after his wife, Jean, an ophthalmologist, had observed a consistent loss of wrinkle lines among patients who had received the toxin for blepharospasm.
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Marrying ophthalmology to dermatology, Jean and Alistair Carruthers observed that blepharospasm patients who received injections around the eyes and upper face also enjoyed diminished facial glabellar lines ( frown lines between the eyebrows ), thereby initiating the highly-popular cosmetic use of the toxin.
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It was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration for marketing in this country for the treatment of strabismus ( crossed eyes ) and blepharospasms ( eye spasms ) in 1989 . ( Botox is still not FDA approved for the treatment of anything but crossed eyes and muscle spasms .)
