What should I do if I have facial palsy?

  First, choose a regular hospital to receive timely, reasonable and regular treatment.  Facial palsy is divided into simple type, Bell’s type and Hunter’s type. The simple type of facial palsy only shows weakness of one side of the face, and when looking in the mirror, it is found that the frontal lines become shallow or disappear, the affected eye is not fully closed, lacrimation, and the corner of the affected side of the mouth is weak or drooping. The affected side holds food after eating. In addition to the main symptoms mentioned above, Bell’s facial palsy is also accompanied by tinnitus, auditory hypersensitivity, or loss of taste sensation in front of the tongue on the affected side. Hunter’s facial palsy has peri-auricular pain before the appearance of external obliquity of the mouth and eyes, followed by peri-auricular herpetic rash in the ear canal. Simple facial palsy with herbs, western medicine. Acupuncture, physical therapy. Ointment, the effect is good. Bell’s facial palsy and Hunter’s facial palsy must be treated with acupuncture early, otherwise it will prolong the treatment time and some patients will be left with lifelong mouth and eye distortion. We often meet some facial palsy patients in the clinic, the first choice after the onset of the plaster, plaster paste 1-2 months, the affected side of the corner of the mouth by the plaster corrosion ulceration, leaving scar, still mouth and eyes crooked to seek medical advice, at this time the effect of acupuncture is also slow, doctors and patients are anxious. The ointment treatment for facial paralysis is less complicated than Chinese and Western medicine and acupuncture, convenient, inexpensive and easy to accept. The doctor fully understands the patient’s feelings. However, it is only applicable to simple facial palsy, so please pay attention to it.  Second, the treatment and prognosis of facial palsy should be treated with a correct attitude.  If facial palsy is treated correctly, timely, reasonably and regularly at an early stage, it will generally be cured. Simple facial palsy will generally be cured in half a month to one month. Bell’s palsy is usually cured in one month to 40 days. Hunter’s facial palsy mouth and eyes take 2 months or more to obtain a cure, and patients with this type have a higher chance of leaving sequelae. There are roughly three types of facial palsy patients we encounter in the clinic: the first type is able to treat objectively, have the attitude of being at peace with the situation, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, acupuncture and medication on time, this type of patients have good treatment effect and high cure rate. The second type of patients, due to the lack of basic understanding of facial palsy, suffer from facial palsy as if the sky is falling, and seek medical help everywhere, sometimes running several large hospitals a day, asking doctors to guarantee how long it will take to cure, and not getting a positive answer from doctors, they become anxious and anxious, seeking miracle drugs, looking for prescriptions. In the road of reform, Deng Xiaoping proposed to seize the opportunity. A male patient with facial palsy had a sudden onset of facial palsy the day after his wedding, he ran to five major hospitals and smoked three packs of cigarettes on the same day, asking the doctor to guarantee how long it would take to cure him, but he did not get an affirmative answer from the doctor before he came to my office. The patient was very grateful and told me in a funny way that Dr. Zhang not only cured my disease but also left me with his daughter-in-law. The third type of patients is those who do not take facial palsy seriously and think that they will get better after a few days of resistance, losing the best time for treatment and often leaving sequelae. It is not that these patients do not take their illness seriously, but there are examples of patients around him who suffered from facial palsy and did not treat it, and got well after a few days of carrying the illness. This type of facial palsy does have a tendency to heal itself, just like taking medicine for a week for a cold, or not taking medicine for a week. However, Bell’s facial palsy and Hunter’s facial palsy must be treated with acupuncture early, and the more you fight, the more trouble you will have.  When is the best time to treat facial palsy with acupuncture?  The traditional view of Western medicine is to go for acupuncture treatment two weeks after the onset of the disease. The Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture contains an article which proves that the cure rate of the treatment group started acupuncture treatment on the day of facial palsy reached 82%, while the cure rate of the control group was 36% when they started acupuncture treatment one week after the onset of the disease.