With the change of seasons in summer and autumn, the weather slowly turns cooler, and many people are affected by the weather, coupled with bad living habits, and slowly appear facial paralysis symptoms such as unable to raise eyebrows, large eye splits, unable to close eyes, tears, and drooping corners of the mouth, which seriously affects the daily life of residents.
Facial palsy, scientific name facial nerve palsy (facial neuritis, Bell's palsy, Hunter syndrome), commonly known as "facial paralysis", "crooked mouth", "hanging wind", is a common disease characterized by motor dysfunction of facial expression muscles. It is mainly manifested as crooked corners of the mouth, difficulty in closing the eyes, disappearance of nasolabial folds, bulging cheek leakage, and incomplete teeth on the unilateral face, which is a common disease and frequent occurrence, and is not limited by age.
Causes of facial paralysis
The facial nerve is shallow on the face and closest to the throat, and is vulnerable to cool breeze or acute laryngitis; In summer, blowing too many fans, air conditioners, etc. is also easy to cause illness. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, most of the occurrence of facial paralysis is due to insufficient righteous qi, unstable external health, and then feeling wind and evil, or mixed cold, heat or summer humidity, etc., the evil face Yangming, Shaoyang meridians, camp guard discord, qi and blood obstruction, muscles and veins are not nourished, so that the muscles are sluggish, resulting in the onset of facial paralysis.
Treatment of facial paralysis
Facial paralysis can be treated by combining traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine.
1. Acupuncture treatment: acupuncture to channel meridians, regulate qi and blood, stimulate facial nerves, promote blood circulation, and repair facial paralysis.
2. Facial cupping (flash can) treatment: Facial cupping can enhance facial blood circulation, increase the elasticity recovery of facial muscle groups, accelerate the absorption of inflammatory products and metabolites, promote facial nerve inflammation, eliminate edema, and restore facial paralysis.
3. Western medicine treatment: At present, Western medicine mainly uses glucocorticoids, antivirals, nutritional nerves and other drugs.
Rehabilitation exercises
1. Eyebrow raising training: lifting the eyebrows on the healthy side and the affected side helps to restore the motor function of raising the eyebrows, lifting the eyebrows vigorously, in a panic shape, each time raising the eyebrows 10~20 times, 2~3 times a day.
2. Closed eyes training: when training to close the eyes, the eyes should be gently closed at the beginning, both eyes closed at the same time 10~20 times, if not completely closed, the white place of the eyelid can be used the tip of the index finger along the lower edge of the orbit, gently massage once, and then close the eyes ten times hard, which helps the recovery of the eyelid closure function.
3. Nose shrugging training: Nose shrugging exercise is mainly completed by the motor contraction of the upper lip muscles and nasal pressure muscles, which can promote the recovery of the motor function of the nasal muscles and lifting the upper lip muscles.
4. Tooth training: Tooth showing exercise is mainly completed by the contraction of zygomatic large and minor muscles, lifting horn muscles and laughing muscles. The corners of the mouth move to both sides at the same time, avoid pointing to one side with force, and practice a habitual angular deflection movement.
5. Nuzui training: Nuzui mainly relies on orbicularis orbicularis muscle contraction to complete, when performing nuzui training, force contract the lips and nu the mouth forward, and use force when nuggling. After the oral chakra muscle recovers, the patient is able to puff out the gills. The symptoms of brushing teeth leakage and eating drooling will also disappear, and the motor function of the upper lip muscle and lower lip square muscle is also trained while training the angry mouth.
6. Gill puffing training: Gill training helps to restore the motor function of orbicularis orbicularis muscles and buccal muscles, and when the cheeks are leaking, pinch the mouth chakra muscles on the affected side up and down with your hands for gills training. This method helps prevent and treat the quadratus upper lip contracture.
Prevention of facial paralysis
1. It is necessary to arrange the work and rest time, not to stay up late, not to be overworked.
2. Avoid the stimulation of bad emotions and keep your mood comfortable.
3. Usually strengthen physical exercise and enhance their physique.
4. In summer, avoid direct blowing of air conditioners on the face; Wear masks when cycling and motorcycle riding; Wear a mask in winter and take measures to keep your head and face warm;
5. If the patient with facial paralysis has been cured but is prone to relapse, avoid eating spicy and stimulating foods, quit smoking and alcohol.