Caffeine Prevents Twitching Eye

I am a great coffee lover, so it is always great to hear that coffee can potentially do something good for your health, as we are always hearing the negative effects of caffeine on our system.

In a study carried out in Bari Italy, researchers found that drinking coffee could protect against eyelid spasms that in some people leads to blindness. The coffee and smoking habits were looked at for 166 people with blepharospasm which is an uncontrollable twitching of the eye, and in extreme cases, can cause blindness.

At the Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences University of Bari, Italy, a previous study had suggested that smoking had a protective effect on the condition, but in this study it was found that only those who drank coffee were less likely to develop the condition, and one more good thing - the effect was proportional to the amount of coffee drunk. The age that this spasm struck (usually between the ages of 50 and 70) was also found to be greater in patients who drank more coffee and this increased by 1.7 years for each additional cup drunk per day.

Italian research strongly suggested that coffee provided some sort of protective factor, and it was thought that caffeine could be blocking the receptors in the brain associated with the tremor. However, as there was a very low intake of decaffeinated coffee in Italy, no patients who drank decaf could be compared to those who drank caffeinated coffee. I, for one, will continue with my daily dose!