Drooping Eyelids
If someone is coming down with shingles on the face, they may feel pain and muscle weakness. As the herpes zoster virus affects the facial nerve, it may cause the eyelids to droop.
In most cases, eyelid drooping is a natural sign of aging, where the upper eyelid’s edge goes lower. Doctors call this ptosis. Another condition is called dermatochalasis, in which the excess baggy skin in the upper eyelid sags. Some people may have drooping eyelid over one eye, while others have them on both eyes. Drooping eyelids can block the field of vision or cover the entire pupil.
The drooping eyelid is often caused by the weakness of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle that lifts the eyelid, or there could be damage to the nerves controlling this particular muscle. Another cause is the looseness of the skin of the eyelids.
Anyone can have drooping eyelids, which is already present at birth for some people. However, due to the various causes of this condition, people should see their doctors because the drooping of their eyelids may be due to an eye injury, tumor behind or around the eye, diabetes, stroke, Myasthenia gravis, or Horner syndrome.
