Is Hunter’s facial paralysis slow to heal?

In patients with Hunter’s facial paralysis, because the herpes virus invades the facial nerve at a higher segmental location, recovery is slower and the course of treatment is relatively longer, and the exact recovery time is related to the patient’s degree of facial paralysis, treatment, and other factors. Patients with incomplete facial palsy may recover or recover within 1 to 2 months, while patients with complete facial palsy usually take 2 to 8 months or even 1 year to recover, and often have sequelae. The recovery of taste within 1 week suggests a good prognosis for young patients, while the prognosis for elderly patients with mastoid pain or with diabetes, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction, etc. is poorer. Patients with Hunter’s facial paralysis should go to the hospital as early as possible in the early stage of the disease, and be treated with antiviral, glucocorticoid, vasodilator, and nutritive nerve medication, and actively cooperate with the rehabilitation therapist to carry out facial muscle exercise training, physical factor therapy, and acupuncture and needling and other means of rehabilitation therapy, so as to improve the blood circulation of the face, which will be conducive to the absorption and dissipation of exudate, thus promoting the recovery of function.