Can I drink alcohol for trigeminal neuralgia? In today’s society, the drinking table culture is becoming more and more prevalent, whether it’s a work function or a small gathering between friends, they all like to have a few drinks to liven up the atmosphere. However, there are friends who do not like to drink, and most of them will excuse themselves from driving at the party, or are allergic to alcohol. The joke of course does not need to be taken seriously, but there are still some friends who are really not suitable for drinking alcohol and should not be taken lightly. It is the trigeminal neuralgia patients that I want to introduce. Trigeminal neuralgia is a term that does not sound unfamiliar to anyone. Many of you have some knowledge of it and know that the pain is unbearable when it strikes. However, they do not know that you should not drink alcohol for trigeminal neuralgia. The reason for the onset of trigeminal neuralgia is due to compression between the blood vessels and nerves, and the most common cause of compression is due to atherosclerosis, which causes poor vascular elasticity. Alcohol consumption can lead to the formation of atherosclerosis, so it is not recommended. The stimulation of nerves by vasodilatation will be enhanced after drinking, and most patients with trigeminal neuralgia will have significantly more pain after drinking; 2. Wine is a spicy and irritating liquid, and pain is easily induced after drinking. Therefore, doctors recommend that both the process of drinking and after drinking, alcohol causes vasodilation, which will aggravate the number and degree of trigeminal neuralgia attacks, so patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia should not drink alcohol as much as possible, and can drink a small amount of alcohol after trigeminal neuralgia is cured. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a lot of money from the internet. But does not contain any nutrients, excessive alcohol consumption reduces the intake of other foods containing a variety of important nutrients. Secondly, it can reduce appetite and food intake, as well as long-term excessive alcohol consumption damages intestinal mucosa, affecting intestinal absorption of nutrients, leading to a variety of nutrient deficiencies. And patients with trigeminal neuralgia need to supplement nutrients. They should eat more foods with high protein content and take more micronutrients. How to treat trigeminal neuralgia: Of course, there is no shortage of friends suffering from trigeminal neuralgia who love to drink, if life can not even choose what to eat and drink is really too sad. So what can be done to treat trigeminal neuralgia. You can choose medication. Such as carbamazepine, phenytoin sodium, etc., can relieve pain to some extent, but can not cure. It is not the best treatment method. Currently, the most popular treatment method is surgery, called “microvascular decompression” to treat the disease. Trigeminal neuralgia microvascular decompression is the only treatment that targets the cause of the disease and is therefore the most widely used treatment for trigeminal neuralgia in China and abroad. Its advantage is to maintain the anatomical integrity of the nerve on the basis of long-term effective resolution of facial pain, thus maintaining normal nerve function, changing the facial dysfunction that occurred after other previous treatments, and improving the quality of life of patients. The procedure is less invasive, has a high safety cure rate and a low complication rate.