What causes facial paralysis? How to treat it?

What causes facial paralysis?

(1) Idiopathic facial paralysis. Fatigue and coldness of the face and behind the ears are also causes of facial paralysis in daily life. There are a large number of patients with this type of facial paralysis. Therefore, you should pay attention to the combination of work and rest in your life, avoid overwork, and pay attention to adding or removing clothes to prevent colds.

(2) Traumatic facial paralysis. The number of patients with this type of facial paralysis is relatively small. It is mainly caused by skull base fracture, facial trauma, surgical operation and drug injection into the facial nerve distribution area, causing drug poisoning. For example, injecting alcohol, penicillin, botulinum toxin and other drugs.

(3) Tumor-induced facial paralysis: Although the chance of the tumor itself or surgical removal of the tumor causing facial paralysis is very small, it does not mean that there is no such possibility. Tumors that can induce facial paralysis mainly include: basilar artery aneurysm, skull base tumor, acoustic neuroma, parotid gland tumor and jugular bulb tumor.

(4) Neurogenic facial paralysis. The number of patients with this type of facial paralysis is not large. Cerebrovascular disease, intracranial and non-traumatic neurogenic sources are the main causes of this type of facial paralysis. Therefore, patients with cerebrovascular diseases must pay attention to the treatment of their own diseases to avoid inducing facial paralysis.

What causes facial paralysis?

Treatment of facial paralysis

1. Acute medication

Experts from the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that 80% of facial paralysis patients can be cured through oral medication, with good results and no sequelae. For patients in the acute stage of facial paralysis and with mild symptoms, oral medication is a convenient, fast and effective treatment method. However, experts pointed out that since the treatment of facial paralysis cannot be separated from hormonal drugs such as prednisone, patients with hormonal contraindications such as acute gastric ulcers and severe diabetes cannot use this therapy.

2. Acupuncture for whole body conditioning

Acupuncture is used to treat facial paralysis mainly to dispel wind and cold and dredge the meridians. Experts point out that the advantages of acupuncture treatment are that it has no toxic side effects and no contraindications, and the treatment time is short, usually recovering in two to three weeks.

3. Surgery for stubborn facial paralysis

Once conservative treatment fails to relieve the symptoms, the doctor will perform electrophysiological or CT examinations on the patient. Experts explained that if the patient's neuroanatomical structure is found to be abnormal and cannot follow its expected recovery curve between the 14th and 28th day of onset, appropriate surgical treatment should be taken according to the cause and severity of the patient's illness. At present, facial paralysis surgery in China is relatively safe, and the surgical incision is behind the ear, which will not leave any scars on the face.