Painful facial twitching is one of the main symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes called “face pain” and easily confused with toothache. Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the most common diseases in neurosurgery and one of the most difficult diseases in international recognition. Most trigeminal neuralgia starts at the age of 40, mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, especially in women, and its onset is more on the right side than on the left side.
The painful facial twitches caused by trigeminal neuralgia are sudden, without any aura, mostly on one side. When the attack occurs, the pain is as intense as a knife cut or electric shock and lasts for several seconds to 1-2 minutes, often accompanied by facial muscle twitching, lacrimation, salivation, facial flushing, conjunctival congestion, etc. As the condition worsens, the interval becomes shorter and the attacks become more frequent.
The diet of patients with painful facial convulsions: 1, soft food: trigeminal neuralgia patients will chew too hard food to induce pain, then the food should be semi-liquid or liquid food, such as egg custard, rice porridge, noodles and other soft food.
2, spicy and irritating food do not eat: In addition to know trigeminal neuralgia patients should pay attention to fluid food, but also pay attention to spicy and irritating food, greasy and indigestible food, and too cold or too hot food, mustard, curry powder, dry chili, five spice powder irritating condiments and so on contraindicated.
3, liquid diet: trigeminal neuralgia patients because of the condition, can be mainly liquid food. Fluid food is not easy to have a sense of satiety, then when choosing fluid food, you need to pay attention to the best thick fluid food, should be prepared high sugar, high protein liquid food, such as chicken soup dumped egg flower, meat loaf over wok porridge, milk punch lotus root powder, milk punch egg flower and other thick fluid, which will give patients a sense of satiety, but also fried vegetables, roast pork, noodles, rice, porridge, dumplings, etc., pounded into a celiac food for trigeminal neuralgia patients to eat.