Can Squeezing Your Eyelids Tightly Shut Raise Eye Pressure?

Posted on Fri, 3 Dec 2021

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Question : Can squeezing your eyelids tightly shut raise eye pressure? (I have a bad habit of closing them tightly shut) If so can raised eye pressure from squeezing eyelids tightly shut effect the pigments in the iris resulting in hyperpigmentation? , basically does raised eye pressure effect the color of the iris?

Answered by Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
No it wont affect the pigment of iris

Detailed Answer:
Hello thanks for the question .Yes squeezing the eye can cause momentarily increase of eye pressure but it will go back to normal in a second. Secondly changes in eye pressure wont affect the iris pigment . Hope it helps . Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar