No, 32-year-old Ms. Zhang woke up a few days ago and found that her right face was swollen, her mouth and eyes were crooked, and she was still leaking. These are all manifestations of facial paralysis. And 10 days ago, Ms. Zhang suffered from a bad cold, accompanied by earache, pus and other symptoms. She always felt blocked and stressed when she was obedient, but she was busy at the end of the year, which delayed her illness.
The examination found that Ms. Zhang had a large amount of pus in her right ear and perforation of the tympanic membrane; After further examination and diagnosis, Ms. Zhang's facial distortion is closely related to otitis media. Because the cold has not been treated in time, the inflammation of the upper respiratory tract spreads, invading the middle ear and facial nerve, leading to complications such as facial paralysis and otitis media.
Facial paralysis is facial neuritis, which is also commonly known as "crooked mouth" and "hanging line wind" It is a disease characterized by motor dysfunction of facial expression muscles. It usually starts with acute symptoms, with "mouth-eye deviation" as the typical symptom. The symptoms are mostly facial expression muscle paralysis, forehead wrinkles disappearing, eye fissure expanding, nasolabial groove flattening and mouth drooping.
When smiling or grinning, the drooping corners of the mouth and facial skew are more obvious; The affected side can't complete the actions such as frowning, raising eyebrows, closing eyes, puffing and pouting;
When you drum your cheeks and whistle, the mouth on the affected side can't be closed, so it leaks; When eating, food residues often stay in the gap between the teeth and cheeks of the affected side, and when drinking and gargling, water flows out of the affected side of the mouth; Because the tear spot everts with the lower eyelid, tears can't flow out according to normal drainage. Facial paralysis caused by otitis media is only one of the reasons. Winter is the high season of facial paralysis. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, facial paralysis is related to common cold, the wind belongs to yang evil, and the head and face are in yang position. There is a saying that "cold, yang evil, easy to attack yang position", so facial paralysis is very likely to occur after the head and face are blown by the wind.
Although facial paralysis is not life-threatening, it often destroys appearance and brings greater mental damage to people than ordinary diseases. It is the key to prevent facial paralysis to keep warm from the wind and evil spirits on your head. Pay special attention to keep warm on both sides of the mandible, and don't be stimulated by cold wind. Don't blow your face while sleeping or riding.
In addition, in daily life, we should strengthen physical regulation, pay attention to physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, and properly eat and enhance resistance.
In case of pain, swelling and numbness behind the ears and cheeks, or leakage on one side when brushing and gargling, don't delay and seek medical advice in time. The treatment of facial paralysis is very simple and standardized, but the treatment time is generally long, so it is very important to insist on treatment in a regular hospital. The earlier the treatment, the better the effect.
Patients with facial paralysis should not wash their faces with cold water or eat irritating food during treatment. It is best to apply a warm wet towel to your face every day, massage paralyzed facial muscles and improve facial blood circulation.
Rehabilitation nursing of facial paralysis: doing "face exercises" every day.
Once facial muscles are found to be stiff, it is advisable to do "facial exercise", which can not only help patients with facial paralysis to promote the recovery of facial expression function, but also be used as an exercise method for facial muscles of healthy people.
Draw people's attention
Lifting eyebrows on the healthy side and the affected side is helpful to the recovery of eyebrow lifting motor function.
Close your eyes.
When training to close your eyes, gently close your eyes at the beginning and close your eyes at the same time 10~20 times. If you can't close your eyes completely, you can gently massage with your fingertips along the lower edge of the orbit when exposed, and then close your eyes forcibly 10 times, which is helpful to the recovery of eyelid closure function.
Shrug one's nose
Nose shrug is mainly accomplished through the movement and contraction of the upper lip muscle and the lower nose muscle, and attention should be paid to the direction of the nose during training.
show one's teeth
The action of exposing teeth is mainly accomplished by the contraction of zygomatic muscle, levator pollicis muscle and smiling muscle, and the motor dysfunction of these four muscles is the main cause of oral deviation. Make the spat move to both sides at the same time, so as to avoid the habitual spat deflection movement caused by only applying force to one side.
Pout (as a signal)
When doing lip kissing training, you should shrink your lips, make your lips move forward and make your lips work hard.
Drum surface
When the gills leak, hold the orbicularis oris muscle of the affected side up and down with your hands and perform gilldrum training.
The above six movements, trained 2~3 times a day, each movement training 10~20 times, will promote the recovery of facial paralysis.