My son is 7 month old and I just noticed he never blinks?
2006-12-18 09:21:41 · 19 answers · asked by Sal S 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
That's a Baby Alive doll and it's lying down. You need help.
2006-12-18 09:23:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Take him the doctor because if he is not blinking, something is wrong. He could be blind, he could have a neurological problem, could be lots of things, but you need to find out for sure. My son rarely blinked at this age. He was diagnosed with Autism at 17 months. It was a symptom. In any event, if you feel there is something wrong , there probably is. Better to be safe than sorry. On a different note, I do not understand why people have to answer serious questions with stupid smart *** answers. What a bunch of idiots
2006-12-18 19:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle F 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blinking is an important reflex that keeps his eyes moist and protects them from foreign object intrusion. Try blowing into his eyes. This should cause him to blink. If he does, does he blink involuntarily when you put something close to his eyes? If he blinks with the forced air but does not do it when you put something close to his eyes, that could indicate blindness. If he does it to neither, it's more likely a neurological problem. Either way, take him to see the pediatrician.
2006-12-18 09:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by CPT Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is 7 months too. I don't know of any child not blinking...but my child can beat most of us at a staring contest. He could go almost twice as long as us adults. I just guess he good, well lubricated eyeballs.....new parts run better......
2006-12-18 09:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure he NEVER blinks? Maybe you just don't notice? It would be very odd if he never blinked.
2006-12-18 09:25:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T ASKED THE DOCTOR. That is a very dangerous thing. IF he really isn't blinking, you need to go the hospital right now.
2006-12-18 09:24:30 · answer #6 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do you know he's not blinking when you're blinking?
2014-10-05 21:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by The Covert Comic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do babies blink less often than adults?
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Babies blink less often than adults. In normal circumstances, newborns blink at the rate of less than two times per minute. In childhood, the blink rate rises. Thus, by about age 14, the blink rate rises to about 10 blinks per minute. In adulthood, the blink rate remains at about 10 to 15 times per minute.
This rate changes with attention, stress, excitement, eye irritation, and amount of sleep. Generally, when one has had more sleep, one needs to blink less. There is widespread variation in blink rate among individuals. There may be a genetic component in this. There may also be a learned cultural component as well.
Blinking also may play an undetermined role in body language as it does in our non-human primate cousins. The main physiological purpose of blinking is to spread tears over the surface of the eyes.
According to Dr Samuel Salamon of the Cataract Eye Centre of Cleveland, Ohio, it is puzzling as to why babies don't suffer from dry eyes due to their lack of blinking. It could be that since babies sleep so much, and thus spend so much time with their eyes shut, perhaps dry eyes are less of a problem for them.
Also, Dr Salamon points out, a baby's eyes have smaller fissures compared with an adult's eyes. That is, much less of the front of a baby's eye is exposed to the outside world - and to its dirt, dust, and brightness - due to the shape of the infant skull. A baby's eyelid openings are smaller in relation to the eye compared with the eyelid openings of adults. Thus, a baby's eyes may need less lubrication.
Babies do not manufacture tears during their first month of life.
A dry cornea can affect the outcome of today's high tech eye scans using tomography (OCT). According to Dr DM Stein and five colleagues from the Department of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, writing in the June 2006 Opthalmology, corneal dryness affects OCT scan quality and measured nerve fibre layer thickness after only a short exposure time. What's to be done? They write: "It is recommended to instruct those who are scanned to blink frequently or to instill artificial tears."
Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney. Email your Odd Body questions to s.juan@edfac.usyd.edu.au
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/30/the_odd_body_blinking/
2006-12-18 09:27:33 · answer #8 · answered by Sancira 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do Babies Blink
2016-10-18 10:58:10 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he must blink sometime. are his eyes dry? take him to a doctor like now... or maybe he blinks when you are?
2006-12-18 09:28:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
HATE TO SAY IT HE IS BLIND.
see a doc inless this will heppend for the rest of his lifetime
2006-12-18 14:39:14 · answer #11 · answered by Sooner#1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋