What causes facial paralysis?

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Facial paralysis is one of the facial nerve diseases that we are all familiar with. At the same time, we also know that it is very difficult to cure facial paralysis, which has a great relationship with all aspects of life of patients with facial paralysis. Some of them do not understand the cause of facial paralysis, leading to the recurrence of the disease. So what is the cause of facial paralysis? Let's talk about it

What causes facial paralysis?

Virus infection is caused by the direct invasion of the virus to the facial nerve. The facial paralysis caused by this kind of etiology will appear the symptoms of supraauricular, postauricular and facial pain before illness. Some patients will have herpes zoster. The blood vessels of facial nutrient nerves are affected by wind and cold, which leads to ischemia, edema and compression of nerve tissue. About 30.3% of idiopathic facial paralysis is caused by cold, wind or fatigue on the face or behind the ears.

Rheumatic facial paralysis, facial nerve swelling, compression, blood circulation disorders caused by periostitis in the stylomastoid foramen. Facial paralysis can cause all kinds of strange faces. Such as mouth and eyes askew, forehead tattoo, immobility, eyes can not be closed, drooling, blowing, mouth droop, facial numbness, stiffness, twitch pain and other symptoms. Because many patients do not get the correct system of treatment, resulting in facial paralysis for a long time, bring great pain to patients and families.

The causes of facial paralysis are vascular insufficiency, congenital facial nucleus hypoplasia, metabolic disorders, such as vitamin deficiency, diabetes, poisoning, such as long-term exposure to poisons or alcoholism, neurogenic, about 13.5%, caused by intracranial, non traumatic neurogenic, cerebrovascular diseases. Tumor, accounting for about 5.5%, can be caused by tumor itself and surgical resection. Tumors include primary cholesteatoma, jugular bulb tumor, basilar artery tumor, skull base tumor, acoustic neuroma, parotid gland tumor and so on.

matters needing attention

Facial paralysis patients in peacetime must not get cold, even in the hot summer do not use air conditioning, fans can not blow, and do not overwork, especially men do not smoke, treatment can do physical therapy, can also consider acupuncture treatment, the effect is very good.