What is the best way to treat neuritis?

Nowadays, many people often suffer from neurological diseases. When neuritis appears on your face, the treatment you need is to use medication to maintain it first, and then choose some other methods after the condition improves. If the clinical effect is not good, it is likely to turn into facial paralysis. When necessary, it must be controlled in a standardized manner as soon as possible.

1. Do the facial paralysis symptoms of facial neuritis need treatment?

Neurologists have always believed that facial neuritis is an infectious disease of the peripheral nerves of the nervous system. After being treated with neurotrophic drugs such as hormones, antivirals, vasodilators, vitamins, etc. in the acute phase, it will pass the acute phase (generally considered to be a week), leaving behind symptoms of peripheral facial paralysis. It does not require treatment and can recover on its own in three weeks to a month. Some patients have severe infection, obvious nerve damage, and longer recovery time, and some may even develop hemifacial spasm. In fact, most patients cannot recover. Even if they get better, the strength of most of the facial expression muscles cannot be restored to the same as the healthy side. During movement, it will be found that the two sides of the face are asymmetrical. A considerable number of patients will develop untreatable hemifacial spasm due to prolonged symptoms (of course, hemifacial spasm can now be treated with botulinum toxin injections, but the clinical treatment effect is not good). Therefore, facial paralysis needs treatment.

2. Are folk remedies really effective?

Many ordinary people know that if you have a crooked mouth and slanted eyes, you can apply eel on the skin. This is the widespread disconnection problem among the people, which can be treated with eel blood. You can also use strychnine and croton (both are very irritating Chinese medicines) for external application on the face. Is this treatment scientific and effective? It should be said that using fish blood for treatment has no scientific basis and is not tenable from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine theory. The reason why it has been passed down for so long is that it seems to be very effective for some patients who can heal themselves after using fish blood. In fact, fish blood has no effect at all. If we make a far-fetched statement, at best, the protein in the fish blood can partially correct the paralyzed facial muscles caused by nerve damage, making the corners of the mouth look less deviated, and it seems to be very effective. In fact, it has no effect at all. The same is true for external application of Chinese medicine. Moreover, strychnine and croton are highly corrosive and can cause damage to local skin. They are rarely used in large cities with developed medical care.

3. What are the functions of traditional Chinese medicine?

Patients with facial neuritis believe that seeking traditional medical treatment for facial paralysis means taking Chinese medicine. Some patients choose to take Chinese medicine because they are afraid of acupuncture treatment. According to traditional medical theory, facial paralysis should be classified as wind syndrome. The general classification includes exogenous wind-cold, exogenous wind-heat, internal liver wind and so on. According to these classifications, some prescriptions will be listed, including some special prescriptions such as Qianzhengsan (a special prescription for crooked corners of the mouth). Clinical observation shows that traditional Chinese medicine has no advantages in the treatment of facial nerve paralysis.