According to the Jiangsu public news channel "News Space Station", as the saying goes, "the left eye jumps wealth, the right eye jumps disaster." Eyelid beats, everyone has, but if you involuntarily and frequently, you have to be careful. Recently, Nanjing Brain Hospital received a patient with frequent eyelid beats, and it was caused by compression of facial nerves.
Ms. Yao, 64, began to have a throbbing left eyelid four years ago when the symptoms were mild and unconcerned. Unexpectedly, after a year, the symptoms began to worsen.
The doctor's examination found that Ms. Yao suffered from facial muscle spasm, which was caused by the compression of the facial nerves by blood vessels, which often appeared as eyelid beating in the early stage, and then gradually expanded downwards, affecting the facial expression muscles and lip muscles of the same side. In severe cases, patients have difficulty opening their eyes, crooked corners of the mouth and twitching of the neck muscles, resulting in facial deformation.
Luo Zhengxiang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery of Nanjing Brain Hospital, introduced that these muscles of the face are called expression muscles, and the expression muscles are controlled by a nerve, called the facial nerve, and after the blood vessels are compressed on the facial nerve, it will cause abnormal discharge of the facial nerve, and the facial muscles managed by the facial nerve will spasm and beat. Surgery is to separate the blood vessels that compress the facial nerve from the facial nerve and treat it from the root cause.
After surgery, the beating phenomenon of Ms. Yao's eyelids and mouth corners has been alleviated. According to the doctor, the incidence of facial muscle spasm is about 10 in 100,000, and the incidence in women is higher than that in men, and it will be aggravated when emotionally agitated or nervous. Once symptoms of frequent beating of unilateral eyelids or facial muscles occur, it is best to go to neurosurgery to avoid delaying the condition.
Doctor support, if you twitch continuously for more than a month, the beginning is the eye beat, a little heavier after the corner of the mouth twitch, even if you rest well will still jump, must go to the doctor, may be facial muscle spasm.
Jiangsu TV reporter / Wang Leping Wang Miaojun Editor / Hu Chao