What should I do if facial paralysis is severe?

Humans are creatures with thoughts and feelings, and their emotions can be expressed in words. In particular, the expression of emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on the face is unique in the biological world. Facial expressions are adjusted through muscle contraction. When there is a problem with the facial muscles, people will be unable to express their emotions, and their face will always maintain the same expression. This is called facial paralysis. For people who love to socialize, facial paralysis can have a fatal impact, because without being able to express one's own emotions, one cannot communicate with others wholeheartedly. Therefore, if you suffer from this disease, you must seek timely treatment. Let’s take a look at what to do if facial paralysis is severe?

The symptoms are often paralysis of the facial expression muscles on the affected side, disappearance of forehead wrinkles, widening of palpebral fissure, flattening of nasolabial groove, and drooping corners of the mouth. When smiling or showing teeth, the drooping corners of the mouth and facial crookedness are more obvious. The affected side cannot frown, knit brows, close eyes, puff out air, or purse lips. When puffing out cheeks and whistling, air leaks out because the lips on the affected side cannot close. When eating, food residues often remain in the buccal space on the affected side, and saliva often flows down from that side. Because the lacrimal points are everted with the lower eyelid, the tears cannot be drained normally and overflow.

Most facial paralysis caused by facial neuritis is unilateral, and is more common on the right side. Most patients often suddenly find that one side of the cheek has difficulty moving and the corner of the mouth is crooked when washing their face or rinsing their mouth in the early morning. Some patients may have taste disorders in the front 2/3 of the tongue, hearing hypersensitivity, etc.

1. Eye care

During the acute phase, reduce outdoor activities and keep eyes clean; cover the affected eye with an eye patch or apply eye ointment to prevent conjunctival and corneal infections; minimize eye use.

2.Diet care

Patients with taste disorders should pay attention to the temperature of food; avoid hard food; try to place food behind the healthy tongue and chew slowly; remember to rinse your mouth in time after meals to keep your mouth clean.

3. Rehabilitation care

You can apply hot compress to the affected side to promote local blood circulation. When the facial muscles begin to recover, you need to do muscle strength training for the facial muscles, focusing on training the facial muscles, such as opening the eyes, wrinkling the forehead, sucking, curling the lips, smiling, raising the corners of the mouth, whistling, pursing the lips, pulling the jaw, etc., about 20 minutes each time, once a day, until recovery.