Eyelid pruritus with intravenous morphine

The cause of eyelid pruritus (itching) may be difficult to determine, parti cularly in preverbal children. Tearing, photophobia, or eye rubbing may be the first manifestation of leukemic infiltration or graft-versus-host disea se, necessitating early appropriate therapy.(1) We report a child in whom p ersistent eye rubbing developed after bone marrow transplantation for leuke mia. Morphine administration was found to be the cause of this symptom.