What causes facial paralysis? How to treat it?

Facial numbness not only threatens the patient's physical health, but also causes serious mental and psychological stress to the patient if it is not treated in time. Therefore, the patient must find out the cause of the disease to avoid further aggravation of the disease. So what are the causes of facial numbness?

What are the causes of facial numbness?

1. Caused by wind-cold. Air conditioning in summer, sleeping with windows open, and blowing air after drinking. Autumn, winter and spring are the peak seasons, especially winter.

2. Caused by infection. Infectious lesions are mostly caused by the activation of herpes zoster virus (VZV) that is dormant in the sensory ganglion of the facial nerve.

3. Facial trauma. Facial trauma can easily cause damage to the facial nerves and lead to facial numbness.

4. Postoperative complications.

5. Congenital facial nerve hypoplasia.

Common symptoms of facial numbness

If facial numbness is not cured for a long time, it will cause complete paralysis of the facial muscles, disappearance of forehead wrinkles, widening of palpebral fissures, flattening of nasolabial grooves, drooping of corners of the mouth, and deviation of the corners of the mouth to the healthy side when the teeth are shown. The affected side should not make movements such as wrinkling the forehead, closing the eyes, blowing air, and pursing the lips. When puffing out cheeks and whistling, air leaks out because the lips on the affected side cannot close. When eating, food residues often remain in the buccal space on the affected side, and saliva often flows out.

The harm of facial numbness to patients

Facial numbness seriously endangers the patient's health, mainly affecting the patient's mental outlook and affecting the patient's marriage life, etc. Experts from the facial nerve department of Shanghai Renji Facial Nerve Rehabilitation Base remind patients that they must receive treatment as early as possible to avoid delaying the opportunity and causing more harm to the patient.

How to treat facial numbness

The small molecule neuron regeneration therapy system is a new type of therapy for facial nerve diseases adopted by the facial nerve specialty of Shanghai Renji Facial Nerve Rehabilitation Base. It targets and accurately locates damaged facial neurons, and directly penetrates the facial nerve tissue with highly purified facial nerve activation factors and interventional factors, rapidly stimulating necrotic and dormant facial neuron tissue to restore partial facial neuron function and regenerate broken nerves, change the ischemic and hypoxic state of damaged facial nerves, and restore paralyzed facial expression muscles.