Patient's question:
I was carefully found to have facial paralysis, so I am particularly anxious. What causes facial paralysis?Doctor's answer:
I think what you mentioned as "detailed discussion" should be a peripheral facial palsy, which is a facial nerve neuritis in medical terminology. The cause of facial nerve neuritis is not particularly clear. It is because the common facial nerve canal can only accommodate the facial nerve to pass through. Therefore, once the facial nerve suffers from cerebral edema, it will inevitably lead to nerve compression. Viral infection, instability of autonomic nerve function, etc., can all cause local nerve and blood vessel spasm, cerebral edema, and recurrence of facial muscle paralysis.