Li Yi, deputy chief physician of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Peking Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University

Facial neuritis, commonly known as facial nerve paralysis (i.e., facial nerve paralysis), "crooked mouth," and "dangling wind," is a disease in which the facial expression muscles are mainly characterized by motor dysfunction. Motor dysfunction as the main feature of a disease. It is a common and frequent disease that is not limited by age. The general symptom is that the mouth and eyes are tilted, and patients are often unable to complete even the most basic movements such as lifting the eyebrows, closing the eyes, and puffing the mouth.

Pathogenesis

First of all, we must go to the hospital to diagnose the cause of facial paralysis, facial paralysis occurs due to a variety of reasons, ranging from common viral infections to herpes virus infections, to tumors of the facial nerve and the surrounding structure of the tumor, or inflammation of the compression and trauma can be caused by facial paralysis, then different causes of facial paralysis, there are different treatments. There are different treatments for different causes of facial paralysis.

Medication

Only patients with Bell's palsy, which is a common viral infection, and Hunter's syndrome, which is a herpesvirus infection with facial paralysis, are appropriate for medication. We usually use hormones, and then improve the facial nerve circulation of drugs, as well as neurotrophic drugs timely treatment, if it is herpes virus caused by facial neuritis, we have to early on the use of antiviral drugs, but also to use hormones and nutritive drugs, as well as to improve the facial nerve circulation of the drug treatment in order to achieve a better result.

Surgical treatment

After three months of conservative treatment, the nerve paralysis has not recovered, the measurement of the facial nerve conduction velocity and facial electromyography are not responsive that is, there is no potentiated activity, surgical treatment can be used.