Jimu news reporter Cao Yang
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Correspondent Zhang Xiang Wu Ping
Spring temperature changes unpredictably, hot and cold, facial paralysis and other diseases into a high incidence period. Recently, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Liyuan Hospital, Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, received a number of patients with facial paralysis. Ms. Wang often stayed up late to work overtime, and the next morning she woke up to find her mouth crooked and unable to close her eyes, and was diagnosed by doctors as "facial paralysis". Experts remind that fatigue and cold can easily cause facial paralysis, and in daily life, you should stay up less late and pay more attention to keep warm to avoid cold wind blowing.
The woman stayed up late and worked overtime to cause facial paralysis
Ms. Wang, 28, is a designer who often stays up late to work overtime on weekdays. Recently, I have been busy with work tasks and have stayed up for two consecutive days and nights. Unexpectedly, I woke up the next morning to find that my eyes and mouth "couldn't move." Her family rushed her to the nearby Liyuan Hospital for treatment.
Doctors treat patients with facial paralysis
Director Yao Hongyi, who received the consultation, was diagnosed with "peripheral facial palsy" after excluding cranial brain diseases through detailed examination. Through drug treatment, combined with physical therapy and acupuncture treatment, after 3 treatments, Ms. Wang can normally close her eyes, raise her eyebrows slightly, and the right nasolabial fold appears after 5 times. After nearly a month of standardized treatment, Ms. Wang was basically cured and left no sequelae.
"When I woke up and opened my eyes, I couldn't close them, so I quickly got up and looked in the mirror, and found that my mouth was also crooked to the right side." Ms. Wang recalled the scene at that time and told reporters.
Director Yao Hongyi said that Ms. Wang's facial paralysis was caused by her recent loss of immunity after staying up late and exerting herself, coupled with an accidental cold. "The spring climate is changeable, the cold and hot alternate, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, and the flu is frequent; once normal people are overtime, stay up late, and overwork, there will be a decline in the body's immunity, coupled with the windy spring, the patient's face is easily stimulated by cold wind and cause facial paralysis."
Duan Shengde, deputy chief physician of the Rehabilitation Department of Wuhan Donghu Hospital, has also recently received many patients with facial paralysis. He told reporters that many people do not know much about facial paralysis, in fact, this is a relatively high incidence of disease, which occurs in all age groups and should be paid attention to.
According to Duan Shengde, facial palsy, also known as facial neuritis or facial nerve palsy, is a peripheral facial muscle paralysis caused by non-specific inflammation of the facial nerves in the facial nerve tube. Sudden facial numbness, crooked mouth and eyes as the main manifestations, can be accompanied by inability to close the eyes, tears, puffing cheeks and air leakage, pain behind the ears and so on. Clinical manifestations of facial paralysis patients are weakened or disappeared from lateral muscle movement, often found after waking up from sleep, many people brush teeth when the corners of the mouth leak as the first sign, some people can be accompanied by loss of taste, hypersensitivity, pain in the mastoid part of the affected side, etc., can not complete the eyebrow lift, close the eyes, drum mouth and other actions, the patient's two sides are asymmetrical, the mouth and eyes are crooked, very painful.
How facial paralysis should be prevented
How to prevent facial paralysis? Duan Shengde pointed out that it is mainly to enhance autoimmunity, including improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function, maintaining a light diet, ensuring sleep quality and reasonable exercise. It is recommended to appropriately increase outdoor sports to prevent colds, avoid staying up late, and soothe spirits and emotions, thereby reducing the possibility of facial paralysis.
Yao Hongyi reminded that in daily life, we should pay attention to keeping warm, we need to wear masks when going out, sweating, washing our hair, and taking a bath before drying, avoid blowing cold air, fan, air conditioning wind speed and temperature need to be appropriate, driving, taking a car to avoid opening the window for a long time to blow wind. Obese, hypertensive, immunodeficient, stressful and fatigued people are also susceptible to idiopathic facial nerve palsy and need to rest to avoid excessive fatigue. At the same time, strengthen exercise, enhance the body's immunity, and resist the invasion of the virus.
"A small number of patients with better physique and milder symptoms of facial paralysis may be cured without medication, for most of the patients with facial paralysis, it is very necessary to carry out timely, systematic and correct treatment, and do not delay the timing of treatment." Duan Shengde stressed that in the acute stage of facial paralysis, the symptoms will be aggravated, and do not be overly nervous. After the patient is diagnosed, according to the doctor's recommendation, drug treatment and acupuncture treatment are carried out, and facial function exercises such as eyebrow squeezing, eye closure, cheek bulging, chewing gum are used to promote the recovery of the disease and prevent the occurrence of sequelae.