In life, some people often experience involuntary facial muscle tremors or tremors, and the symptoms are especially severe when they are tense. Many patients may ask, “Are facial muscle spasm and facial palsy the same thing? Although facial palsy and facial muscle spasm are both facial nerve disorders, they are two completely different diseases, and their causes and treatments are very different. The following is an explanation of the difference between facial spasm and facial palsy! 1. The age of onset is different. 1) Facial myospasm mostly develops after middle age, and is mostly seen in women. (2) Facial palsy is a common disease and is not restricted by age or gender. (1) Facial muscle spasm, also known as facial muscle twitching, manifests as involuntary twitching of one side of the face. (2) Facial palsy is a common disease, characterized by movement disorders of facial expressions (inability to make expression packages happily). 3, the symptoms are different (1) facial muscle spasm symptoms are lighter, the initial stage of the lesion can be seen on one side of the orbicularis oculi muscle involuntary paroxysmal twitching (that is, usually said eye jumping), but it is not easy to attract the patient’s attention. With the development of the disease, the lesion gradually involves other facial muscles on the same side, with the corner of the mouth twitching attracting the most attention. Patients have paroxysmal, rapid and irregular twitches at the site of the lesion, which are initially mild and last for a few seconds, but later increase in intensity and last for several minutes, with intervals of varying length. In severe cases, the affected side of the face is tonic, showing that the eyes on the same side cannot be opened, the corners of the mouth are distorted, and even unable to speak normally. (2) Facial palsy refers to facial muscle paralysis, a focal point caused by damage to the facial nerve due to various reasons, which mainly manifests as motor disorders of facial expression muscles, such as crooked mouth, inability to raise the eyebrows when making expressions, absence of forehead lines, incomplete eyelid closure, shallow nasolabial folds on the affected side, crooked mouth to the sound side, inability to puff, and leaky drinking. How to prevent and treat facial muscle spasm? Facial myospasm is mostly idiopathic and has nothing to do with heredity. It is mainly due to arteriosclerosis of blood vessels and neuropathy, which causes short circuiting of nerves in the area of the nerve brainstem, resulting in involuntary jumping of the unilateral eyelid and facial expression muscle array. In patients with multiple organ failure and advanced age, facial myospasm will not affect survival, but only facial discomfort, eyelid fluttering and uncomfortable, which is usually tolerable. For some patients who have quality of life requirements and require treatment, they should be examined and treated in a hospital. Never treat blindly.