How can glossopharyngeal neuritis be serious?

summary

Glossopharyngeal neuritis is a minor disease at first sight. In fact, it is not. Sometimes it may become very serious. For glossopharyngeal neuritis, there are mature treatment methods in science. For example, drug treatment is very common. If the disease is serious, microvascular decompression surgery or blocking therapy can be adopted. Then, Now let's take a look at how serious glossopharyngeal neuritis will be? Let's introduce the related knowledge of the field.

How can glossopharyngeal neuritis be serious?

First, the pain occurs in one side of the tongue, throat, tonsil, ear root and the back of the mandible, sometimes with the main manifestation of ear root pain.

Second: the condition of attack and the nature of pain are the same as those of trigeminal neuralgia. Pain usually occurs suddenly and stops suddenly. The duration of each attack is usually several seconds or tens of seconds, generally not more than two minutes. It can also present severe pain like knife cutting, needling, tearing, burning and electric shock.

Third: other symptoms of swallowing often induce pain attacks. Although there is no abnormality during the intermission, patients are afraid to eat for fear of inducing pain. Patients often have symptoms such as weight loss, dehydration, throat spasm, arrhythmia and hypotension syncope.

matters needing attention

(1) Patients with drug treatment failure or intolerance of adverse drug reactions（ 2) Elderly or poor general condition, can not tolerate microvascular decompression surgery（ 3) Patients with multiple sclerosis. The main problems of this treatment method are high recurrence rate of pain, dysphagia caused by nerve injury, choking cough and hoarseness.