The main symptoms of facial paralysis

Facial paralysis is a relatively common disease, which belongs to the facial nerve disease. It is quite harmful to people. Patients often have unnatural facial expressions, which can easily lead to various symptoms such as squinting eyes and crooked mouth. It will also have a great impact on the patient's psychology, and may even easily lead to drooling and blinking movements, etc. These are all common symptoms of facial paralysis. If you have facial paralysis, you must seek treatment in time.

The main symptoms of facial paralysis

(1) Blinking

This is a more typical symptom and you should pay attention to whether you have this symptom in your life. Careful observation of the patient's blinking revealed asymmetric blinking movements on both sides. If the patient is asked to blink, the blinking movement on the mildly paralyzed side is slow and incomplete, which is one of the clinical symptoms of facial paralysis.

(2) Eyelash disease:

Symptoms involving eyebrows and eyes are also common symptoms and require timely treatment. Ask the patient to close his eyes forcefully. When a normal person closes his eyes forcefully, his eyelashes are mostly buried in the upper and lower eyelids. The clinical symptoms of facial paralysis include exposed eyelashes. Especially in the case of mild paralysis, if you close your eyes tightly, the asymmetry of eyelashes is not obvious at first, but after a short time, the eyelashes on the mildly paralyzed side will slowly become apparent, which is called the positive eyelash sign.

(3) Oblique oval mouth disease

Many patients will have crooked mouths, which can be used as a basis for judgment. Ask the patient to open his mouth wide. When there is mild facial nerve paralysis, the corners of the patient's mouth will droop and become an oblique oval-shaped mouth. When central nerve paralysis occurs, this symptom is not obvious and is the clinical symptom of facial paralysis.

(4) Eyelid tremor phenomenon:

The patient closes both eyes forcefully, and the examiner pulls the upper face apart. At this time, a slight muscle contracture and tremor may be felt on one side of the upper face. The clinical symptoms of facial paralysis are not on the other side. The existence of this phenomenon indicates mild facial paralysis, and peripheral facial paralysis is often the clinical symptom of facial paralysis.

What are the symptoms of facial paralysis? The above is just a brief introduction. You should pay attention to understanding the symptoms and pay attention to the discovery of early symptoms. Once the above four symptoms appear, you should pay attention to early detection and treatment to ensure the patient's health.