What purpose do our eyelashes serve?

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  1. Dr. Michael Roizen
     
    Dr. Michael Roizen answered:
    Eyelashes primarily protect your eyes against pollen and other items in the environment, but they also can sense when something is coming toward the eye, which gives you a microsecond to react to it-and close it. You lose your eyelashes every five weeks-and some medications actually make them grow.
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    Eyelashes primarily protect your eyes against pollen and other items in the environment, but they also can sense when something is coming toward the eye, which gives you a microsecond to react to it-and close it. You lose your eyelashes every five... More