The initial symptom of facial neuritis?

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Neuritis refers to inflammation, decline or deterioration of nerves or nerve groups. The general symptoms are pain, tenderness and tingling. Infected nerves itch and lose consciousness, inflamed parts are red and swollen, and severe spasms. Let's talk about the initial symptoms of facial neuritis.

The initial symptom of facial neuritis?

1. It can be seen at any age: 20-40 years old, no sex difference. 2. Mostly unilateral, rarely bilateral: 3. The vast majority of patients: onset in winter and spring, usually acute onset, facial expression muscle paralysis on one side, can reach the peak in a few hours, may have a local cold stimulation history.

4. Some patients: 1-3 days before the disease, the affected side of the external auditory canal behind the ear mastoid area pain, often found in the morning wash or by others found that the mouth angle is crooked. 5. Forehead lines become shallow or disappear: frowning dysfunction, can't frown, because of orbicularis oculi muscle paralysis, eye fissure increase, nasolabial sulcus become shallow, mouth angle droop, do eye closing action, eyelid can't close or incomplete, and the eyeball is turned outward and upward and exposed white sclera, called bell phenomenon.

6. Lower eyelid ectropion: it is not easy for tears to flow into nasolacrimal duct and overflow out of the eye Diseased side: the nasolabial sulcus became shallow, the mouth angle drooped, and the mouth angle was pulled to the healthy side when showing the teeth. 8. It can be accompanied by: taste, hearing, salivary gland secretion, lacrimal gland secretion and other dysfunction.

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In addition to the above symptoms, the taste of the anterior 2 / 3 of the tongue on the same side decreased or disappeared. When the part above the branch of the sternotomy muscle is involved, the sternotomy muscle is paralyzed, and the ipsilateral auditory hypersensitivity may also appear. When the geniculate ganglion is involved, in addition to facial paralysis, taste disorders and hearing hypersensitivity, there are also ipsilateral salivary and lacrimal gland secretion disorders, pain in the ear and behind the ear, herpes zoster in the external auditory canal and auricle, which is called geniculate ganglion syndrome.