How to treat facial neuritis

  Facial neuritis has a certain degree of self-healing, and early and reasonable treatment can speed up the recovery of facial palsy and reduce complications and sequelae. Early treatment can promote local inflammation and edema to subside early, and promote the recovery of nerve function. The current treatment method is mainly drug therapy, which can be combined with traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatment.  Medication: For peripheral facial nerve palsy caused by facial neuritis, antiviral treatment is available if the infection is viral, and nerve nutrition and B vitamins are used for injection or oral treatment. Short-term treatment with glucocorticoids can be used for patients without contraindications.  Chinese medicine treatment: early use of heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs to dispel the wind and pass wind, and after the acute stage, use methods such as activating blood circulation and benefiting qi, with western medicine treatment can effectively relieve symptoms and speed up recovery.  Acupuncture treatment: Early acupuncture treatment can reduce the inflammatory response and promote the recovery of nerve function, which is recommended for professional acupuncturists.  Physical therapy: commonly used are ultra-short wave, low and medium frequency electrotherapy, laser, drug introduction, etc., which have certain auxiliary therapeutic effects.  Rehabilitation therapy: Hot compresses can be applied to the affected side to promote local blood circulation. When facial muscles start to recover, muscle training of facial muscles is needed to train expression muscles mainly by doing eye opening, forehead wrinkling, sucking, lip curling, whistling, lip pouting, mouth opening, etc. for about 20min each time, 1-2 times a day until final recovery.  Therefore, facial neuritis should be treated early, mainly with medication, which can be combined with herbal medicine and acupuncture treatment, and try to take a comprehensive treatment method, which can generally be recovered.