Surgery for otitis media may carry the risk of causing facial paralysis, and the chances of causing facial paralysis are generally highly dependent on the severity of the lesion and the surgeon’s surgical experience.
Surgery for otitis media is mainly for non-suppurative otitis media and suppurative otitis media. When the effect of conservative treatment is not obvious enough, surgical treatment is often adopted, and clinically, it is mainly through microscopic tympanic tube placement, or tympanoplasty or mastoidectomy. The facial nerve may be damaged during surgery.
If otitis media surgery caused by facial paralysis, can be treated by drugs, surgery, can take methylcobalamin tablets, vitamin B12 nutritional nerve, to improve the symptoms of facial paralysis, if oral medication can not be controlled, you can choose to surgery for treatment, decompression of the facial nerve, to alleviate the symptoms of facial paralysis.
Surgery for people with otitis media may lead to facial paralysis. If symptoms of facial paralysis occur, they should be treated under the guidance of a professional doctor in a timely manner.