Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia

There are many trigeminal neuralgia patients who have no way to seek medical treatment, and they are so preoccupied every day that they can’t eat well or sleep well. Not to mention the work, a normal person spends ten percent of his energy on work, then a trigeminal neuralgia patient can only spend six percent of his energy on work, because there are still four points swallowed up by trigeminal neuralgia. People will ask, if this is the case, why do not choose to go to the hospital in time to seek medical treatment? Doesn’t one deserve to live and suffer from the disease? Of course, there are some people who do not pay attention to it at first, and as time goes by, the disease becomes more and more serious. There is also a part of the people are not looking for the right hospital, three days to let the painkillers and stomach to deal with. Trigeminal neuralgia attack, is not the usual life-threatening, the kind of pain is tearing, involving the brain nerve nerve pain. What are the locations of trigeminal neuralgia? The trigeminal nerve has three branches in the face, the ophthalmic, maxillary and mandibular branches. There are two types of trigeminal neuralgia, primary and secondary. The cause of primary trigeminal neuralgia is not yet fully understood, and secondary trigeminal neuralgia can be caused by tumors, infections, vascular malformations, and oral diseases. The disease mostly occurs in middle-aged and old people, its attack is characterized by: pain occurs suddenly, pinprick-like, cut-like or burning pain, starting from a certain point of the face, radiating to other parts of the face, mostly on one side, seldom on both sides, and each time the pain lasts for a few seconds or 1~2 minutes, most cases are easy to attack when moving, commonly occurring during chewing movement, brushing teeth, washing face, talking, and sometimes a simple open-mouth voice and light stimulation can be triggered, which can lead to the development of trigeminal neuralgia. Sometimes simple opening of the mouth to make a sound, light stimulation can be triggered, in addition to sneezing, crying, tongue movement, turning the head, drinking water, blowing wind on the face, as well as touching and so on can be triggered by the pain attack.