Patient's question:
A few days ago, I went to a friend's place to help them, which involved packing things in a cold storage. The temperature inside was minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. Even wearing cotton coats and pants, I was still shivering. Not long after, when I woke up in the morning, I poured some water to drink and found that my facial muscles were stiff, and my mouth was unconsciously leaking water. I went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said I had facial paralysis, likely caused by the cold.Doctor's answer:
Causes of traumatic facial palsy (1) Mechanical injury, commonly caused by injuries to the jaw and facial area. The forms of injury include acute and chronic crushing injuries, tensile injuries, compression injuries, lacerations, sharp cutting injuries, and blunt force friction injuries. (2) Physical injury, including cryogenic injury, thermal injury, electrical burn injury, radiation injury, as well as ultrasonic injury and laser injury.