Patient's question:
I heard from my friend that her grandmother has been in poor health recently. One time, when she had an attack, she completely broke down. What kind of illness could cause someone to break down like that?Doctor's answer:
The facial nerve is a mixed nerve. The main cause of collapse is the motor nerve. Only a very small number of sensory nerves suppress facial expression muscles. Spinal cord or cauda equina meniscus injury damage. Primary spinal tuberculosis or tuberculous intoxication symptoms, inflammation often occurs again in the thoracic or cervical vertebrae. The course of the disease is slow, mainly spastic paralysis, weakness, stiffness, rigidity, spinal kyphosis or scoliosis deformity, interspinous space without expansion, vertebral body destructive dissolution, vertebral space narrowing or disappearance, vertebral bodies interlocking, abscess shadows. Next to the vertebral body. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate decreases.