Facial neuralgia is clinically known as facial neuralgia. There is no absolute most effective way to treat facial neuralgia, and life interventions and medications can be used according to the cause such as trigeminal neuralgia and cervical neuralgia.
1. Trigeminal neuralgia:
(1) Etiology: Patients may develop facial neuralgia due to chronic demyelinating changes triggered by inflammatory reactions, or other vascular or neurological disturbances in the pontine cerebellar angle, as well as due to brain tumors, ischemia, or atherosclerosis.
(2) Treatment: Trigeminal neuralgia is highly sensitive to cold stimuli, patients can wash with warm water in daily life, pay attention to warmth in fall and winter to reduce cold stimuli and so on. Carbamazepine tablets through the inhibition of trigeminal nerve pathology multi-neuron firing, gabapentin capsule through the blocking effect of the sodium channel to produce neural nociceptive conduction, oral intake of the above medications are able to relieve pain.
2. Cervical neuralgia:
(1) Etiology: cervical neuralgia is commonly caused by cervical spine lesions, cervical spine compression of nerve roots and cause facial pain. Spinal cord lesions can cause cervical nerve pain, which can also be accompanied by symptoms of facial pain.
(2) Treatment: Cervical neuralgia is mostly caused by edema of the tissues around the neck. It is recommended to take proper rest to relax the neck and prevent overwork from aggravating the symptoms of nerve irritation. In terms of medication, oral ibuprofen extended-release capsules can be taken to relieve pain, oral methylcobalamin tablets to nourish the nerves and so on.
It is recommended that patients with facial neuralgia consult a doctor in a timely manner to clarify the cause of the disease and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.