Every year when the cold and windy winter and spring season comes, the number of facial paralysis patients will increase accordingly. The reporter learned from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine that dozens of patients admitted to the hospital recently were mainly young adults. The experts pointed out that the occurrence of facial palsy, in addition to the influence of external environmental factors that are difficult to influence, such as the drop in temperature, many young adults who are confident that their young bodies are good, often stay up late, drink alcohol without getting drunk, these blindly overdrawing the health of the poor habits are not negligible causes. The facial muscles have a numbness, wash your face must use warm water, and use a warm towel in the appearance of abnormalities for a while, no significant improvement should be early medical attention.
Drinking and blowing + staying up late to get cold, beware of facial paralysis!
To prevent facial palsy, it is difficult to change the external environmental changes such as falling temperature, but the risk of the disease can be lowered by improving bad habits.
The first thing you need to do is to prevent the spring chill, and stay up late and drink less to avoid overworking and lowering your resistance so that the wind can take advantage of it.
(Case: Drinking and blowing wind, a guy with facial paralysis
During the Spring Festival, 25-year-old Ah Xiong (a pseudonym) and a group of friends and relatives who have not seen each other for a long time often get together, dinner and drinking is the “reserved program”. When the wine is drunk to the excitement of the cup does not leave the hand, drink high is a common thing. Although he knew that drinking too much wine is not good, but the blood of his self-confidence in young body is good, simply do not take it seriously.
One night, Ah Xiong drank with friends outside until 12 p.m., half-drunk, half-awake, hit a car home. Sitting in the car, the body is hot and uncomfortable, he did not think twice to roll down the car window, facing the cold wind breathing heavily, feeling great. But by the cold wind blowing for a while, Ah Xiong returned home and began to headache, a door too late to wash and change clothes, to the sofa a lie, sleep until almost dawn before the freezing awake, found himself uncovered, before returning to the bed master cover the quilt to fall back asleep.
Sleeping until noon the next day, Ah Xiong woke up heavy, but when he stood up to the bathroom ready to rinse, a mouth, found that the muscles are a little stiff, look up to see his own appearance in the mirror, suddenly startled – only to see his mouth in the mirror crooked, he tried to squeeze his eyebrows to change this “weird But the original vivid face is a bit disobedient to the “command”, the expression becomes stiff, drooling from the corners of the mouth, simply like a clown.
He thought he had had a stroke. He rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed as suffering from facial palsy.
() Interpretation.
Drinking and blowing wind + staying up late and getting cold
The wind and evil attacking the face can easily induce facial paralysis
”Less than a month before the Spring Festival so far, we have seen at least 20 or 30 cases of facial palsy patients, most of whom are young and strong men like Ah Xiong.” The first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Professor Zhuang Lixing, director of the acupuncture department, told reporters that these people have a lot in common: first of all, they are sociable, they will drink when they are out with friends, and often get drunk; secondly, most of these people often stay up late, whether it is overtime or drinking, they stay up late at night before they sleep; more importantly, most of them have insufficient awareness of cold, and they are tired of staying in front of the computer at night to the table. Or drunk on the ground to lie down. Although it is in the room, but the cold weather, no heating in the south, no cover, even if only “squint” on a while, are very easy to catch a cold.
”From the perspective of Chinese medicine, there are two important conditions for the onset of facial paralysis, namely, ’empty veins and wind evil entering the middle’.” Zhuang Lixing explained that when the outside temperature is too low and the body is overly fatigued, there is insufficient qi and blood in the body, and the blood flow of the face is also correspondingly insufficient, which can easily trigger facial paralysis due to a momentary attack of wind and cold on the face.
Zhuang Lixing observed that most of the recent cases he saw were acute facial paralysis caused by wind and cold when resistance was reduced, but there were also a few patients who had viral infections of the facial nerve, and these patients usually had herpes around the auricle.
() Treatment.
The course of treatment efficacy varies depending on the cause
In clinical treatment, traditional Chinese medicine generally uses herbs and acupuncture to dispel wind and cold, warm the meridians and open the ligaments. Modern medicine, on the other hand, depending on the cause of the onset of the disease, uses hormones to control and eliminate facial nerve edema, and if it is due to a viral infection, adds antiviral therapy and aids in physical therapy such as local infrared money irradiation.
”However, although they are all symptoms of facial palsy with a crooked mouth and drooling eyes, and the treatment means are similar, the course of treatment and efficacy still vary greatly depending on the cause.” The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual product.
However, if you do not seek medical attention for more than half a month after the onset of the disease, even if it is acute facial palsy, the treatment difficulty will be greatly increased, and it may even leave the sequelae of distorted eyes and mouth, so this kind of disease is also described as “disfiguring disease”. Therefore, experts suggest that if you wake up in the morning and notice numbness in your facial muscles, you must use warm water when washing your face and use a warm towel to put on the abnormal area for a while, and seek medical attention early if there is no significant improvement.
() Prevention.
Less stay up late and drink away from wind and cold
”Many young and middle-aged patients usually rarely get sick, self-confident young body is good, often stay up late, drinking without getting drunk, these bad habits have actually been in blind overdraft of health.” The company’s main goal is to prevent the occurrence of facial paralysis, the temperature drops, the external environment changes is difficult to change, but completely through the improvement of bad habits to lower the risk of disease.
The current season is past spring, but the spring chill still has to be prevented. Zhuang Lixing reminded that, in addition to doing a good job of daily warmth, attention should be paid to wind protection when going out. In the windy and cold outdoor, it is best to always have a scarf and hat to keep the head and neck warm, and try to avoid long periods of head-on blowing wind. In addition, to stay up less, to avoid overworked resistance decline; drinking to stop, really drink too much need to lie down to rest, be sure to do a good job of the whole body and head and face warmth. When washing your face in the morning and evening, you can massage the relevant points on the face, neck and ears to promote blood circulation in the head and face.
If you want to improve the cold through outdoor exercise, it is recommended to choose running, dancing or playing taijiquan and other sports, but need to be gradual, long-term persistent exercise to be effective.