A swollen eyelid is usually a symptom, not a condition. It's very common and is usually due to allergy, inflammation, infection, or injury. The skin of your eyelid is less than 1 millimeter thick.

Lichenification develops as a result of chronic scratching and/or rubbing (the "itch-scratch cycle") and mainly involves the cutaneous portion of the vulva. Lichenification is characterized ...

Many participants were missing their eyelids. Not in a creepy missing-body-parts and eyes-always-open type of way. Missing eyelids means that they were particularly bad at covering their eyelids ...

It is usually caused by bacteria clogging the oil glands inside the eyelid skin at the base of the eyelashes, but it may have non-infectious causes. Even when the cause is bacteria, it’s not ...

Histamine causes blood vessels in the conjunctiva—the thin, protective membrane covering the inner eyelid and whites of the eyes (called the sclera)—to swell up. Along with intense itchiness ...

An eyelid can become swollen for many different reasons. Common causes of a swollen eyelid include blepharitis, styes, and ...

Ted Wonjo, MD And you can feel a little jiggling of the muscle in the eyelid…Those are temporary, self-limited and mean nothing. Emily Bedrick Graubart, MD There are several different things ...

Burning, itching, soreness Traumiterative ICD Develops in months to years; multiple exposure to a single agent Erythema, papules, dryness, scaling, fissuring, lichenification Traumatic ICD ...

The scientific name for this crust is rheum, and it forms when oil and other debris collect on your eyelids during sleep. But if that crust occurs alongside other symptoms — like red ...

Adults may have dry, scaly patches on the hands, eyelids, or genitals. AD can look different on different skin tones. AD on ...

Hamilton was in such pain he refused to open his eyes. When the 4-year-old English bulldog tried, his misshapen eyelids would roll inward, causing his eyelashes to scrape against his cornea.