Symptoms of facial muscle atrophy

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The so-called facial muscle atrophy usually refers to the symptoms of facial muscle atrophy. The occurrence of this disease will seriously affect the appearance of patients. If we do not take timely treatment measures, it will seriously damage the physical and mental health of patients. Today I want to introduce to you the symptoms of facial muscle atrophy, hoping to help you in-depth understanding of facial muscle atrophy.

Symptoms of facial muscle atrophy

If suffering from facial muscle atrophy, the patient's forehead and or cheek will appear plaque like atrophy symptoms, and the local skin color will be deeper than other parts. If you pinch the atrophic muscles with your hand, the subcutaneous tissue can also appear tension. This kind of disease can be onset in adolescence, and gradually develop and worsen, with the aggravation of the disease, the patient's facial muscles will continue to atrophy, and then the eyes are not closed tightly or can't normal bulge cheek and other symptoms, serious even lead to bilateral tongue muscle atrophy, make the muscle bundle produce obvious tremor, cause a lot of inconvenience to the patient's life.

The temporalis and masseter muscles of patients with facial muscle atrophy usually have limited atrophy symptoms after the onset. For example, when opening the mouth, the mandible will unconsciously shift to the affected side. At the same time, it can also be accompanied by corneal reflex or facial sensory impairment. If the symptoms are severe, it can also appear the loss of facial sensation.

If adolescent children suffer from facial muscle atrophy, the tongue muscle can suddenly atrophy, accompanied by obvious muscle fibrillation, severe dysphagia and dysarthria and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

Emotion control method: it refers to using words and deeds, things as a means to arouse the patient's emotional changes, so as to control their morbid emotions and promote physical and mental recovery. For example, for the patients with flaccidity syndrome with depressed expression, the method of laughing is quite suitable. We can tell stories, tell jokes, listen to crosstalk, watch funny plays and so on to make the patients laugh and feel happy. We can enlighten the patients with care, consideration or a large number of examples, so that they can see the light of hope, turn their worries into happiness, and drum up the courage of life, so as to promote the early improvement of the disease and physical recovery.