The weather is hot and cold, and the "disfigurement" may be very close to you
The recent hot and cold weather can easily affect human health. The reporter learned from the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Rehabilitation Department of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine that there has been a high incidence of facial paralysis recently, and thirty or forty patients come to see a doctor every day.
Often stay up late to work overtime, wake up "disfigured"
Xiaoling, a 23-year-old office worker, has been very distressed recently. As the follow-up project is approaching acceptance, she stays up late to work overtime every day.
Half a month ago, Xiaoling, who worked overtime at the company until 9 o'clock, suddenly felt unbearable pain behind her left ear shortly after arriving home, and her head was a little dizzy. She thought she had caught a cold, so she took some cold medicine and fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, when she woke up the next morning, Xiaoling not only had aggravated pain behind her ears, but also her eyebrows went up and down.
Xiaoling, accompanied by her friends, immediately went to the hospital for treatment.
In the outpatient department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Rehabilitation Department of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director Sun Jianhua judged Xiaoling to have peripheral facial paralysis, commonly known as "facial paralysis".
After anti-virus, taking traditional Chinese medicine combined with acupuncture and treating symptoms, Xiaoling's condition has improved significantly, she can raise her eyebrows normally, and the left nasolabial fold appears. It is expected that she can basically recover after half a month of treatment.
High incidence of facial paralysis in spring, mostly young and middle-aged patients
It is understood that peripheral facial paralysis is a facial paralysis caused by non-specific inflammation of the facial nerve in the stylomastoid foramen. The main clinical symptoms are facial expression muscle paralysis, disappearance of forehead lines, inability to wrinkle forehead and frown, inability to close or insufficiency of eyes , Some patients have persistent pain behind the affected side of the ear and tenderness of the mastoid (the bulge at the back of the ear) 1-2 days before the onset of the disease.
"Facial paralysis occurs all year round, but most of them occur when the seasons change. Recently, patients with facial paralysis account for more than 30% of the outpatients, and most of them are young and middle-aged, aged between 20-40 years old." Sun Jianhua The director introduced that in spring, the climate is changeable, the hot and cold are alternated, and the virus is active. Once the patient is overtired, mood swings, irregular life and rest, lack of uprightness in the body, and weakened immunity, those latent viruses will start to wait for the opportunity, and the infection will lead to inflammation of the facial nerve. Edema, which damages the facial nerve, causing facial paralysis.
Facial paralysis treatment needs to be timely, otherwise it may leave sequelae
Director Sun Jianhua said that traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, cupping, manual massage and other methods can be used to treat facial paralysis. It varies from person to person. Different stages and types of syndrome differentiation can not only improve human immunity, promote the recovery of facial nerve function, and improve the cure of facial paralysis. It can also effectively shorten the healing time.
Some people think that facial paralysis is a self-limiting disease, and it can be cured without treatment.
In this regard, experts said that although facial paralysis has a certain self-healing property, nearly 30% of patients will have sequelae such as facial dysfunction such as hemifacial spasm, which seriously affects daily life. Therefore, timely systematic and correct treatment is very important. necessary.
Correspondent Sun Qian