Toddler blinking a lot constantly just since Thursday - a phase?

[tracyk]

Noticed my ds (3yo) has started blinking really noticeably all the time - only since Thursday. My mum had put moss killer on the grass the previous night and they had been playing football.
his eyes aren't red or sore - look normal and I keep asking him if they are sore and he says no.
My friend says her ds went through this stage as a toddler only to be replaced by a phase of continuous clearing of his throat.
Anyone else had this as a phase??

I know this might sound a bit stupid, but does he need a hair cut? Ds did this recently, and there were a couple of stray hairs that had been sitting in his eye

If his eyes are not irritated then it sounds like it is unlikely to be the moss killer. Sorry not to be more helpful.

my friends DS did the same thing

He had his hair cut yesterday - so I shall monitor his blinking today!

My youngest ds has just finished with the phase and he's 2.10! We kept thinking there was something wrong with his eyes at first

DS did this at same age. Took him to GP who said don't make a deal of it but try to mention it so that he stops. Gave me some eyedrops and suggested I offer to put them in his eyes when started blinking. Just mentioning it made him stop and gradually did it less and less.

dd started this one evening about 5 weeks ago because she had clorine in her eyes or something, can't really remember. Anyway a couple of days later ds started it We knew there was nothing wrong with either of them and it had become a habit.

The more you blink the more your eyes dry out and the more you need to blink. Like if you decide, for some reason, to take up the habit of spitting, you start to produce more saliva and therefore need to spit more.

After calling them 'Blinky' a few times we stopped referring to it at all and it stopped within a couple of weeks.