What are the symptoms of facial paralysis in children?

In life, everyone must be familiar with the term facial paralysis. There are always friends who joke that their friends have facial paralysis when they have no expression. In fact, what everyone should know is that facial paralysis is a disease. Because people don’t know much about this disease, they cannot detect and treat it in time when symptoms appear. So, what are the symptoms of facial paralysis in children?

(1) Crooked mouth and slanted eyes: Patients with facial paralysis whose facial expression muscles on the affected side are completely paralyzed will have no forehead wrinkles, widened palpebral fissures, flat nasolabial grooves, drooping corners of the mouth, and the corners of the mouth will deviate toward the healthy side when showing teeth.

(2) Facial stiffness: Patients often find that one side of their cheek becomes stiff when washing their face or rinsing their mouth in the early morning, and they may even be unable to control their facial expressions. So sometimes your smile will be rather stiff, and you will be seen as having a “poker face” by others.

(3) Drooping of the corners of the mouth: When the patient suffers from facial paralysis, the corners of the mouth will droop, and when the patient closes his eyes forcefully, the drooping corners of the mouth will appear as an oval mouth. Drooping of the corners of the mouth is a common symptom of facial paralysis and is not noticeable, which often leads to delayed treatment.

(4) Air, food, and water leaking from the mouth: The patient cannot frown, frown, close eyes, inflate, or purse his lips on the affected side. When puffing out cheeks and whistling, air leaks out because the lips on the affected side cannot close. When patients with facial paralysis eat, food residues often remain in the buccal space on the affected side, and food may be leaked, with saliva often dripping from that side.

(5) Asymmetrical eyelashes, with eyelashes exposed: Generally speaking, when a normal person closes their eyes tightly, their eyelashes are buried between the upper and lower eyelids. But if you suffer from facial paralysis, your eyelashes will become asymmetrical and exposed. But after a short rest, the eyelashes will slowly return to normal, which is a positive eyelash sign. One of the signs of facial paralysis.

After the detailed introduction above, everyone should have a clear understanding that, in fact, the symptoms of facial paralysis are still very obvious. After reading these introductions, you will be able to discover and find corresponding treatment methods in time when the disease occurs, and prevent more serious situations from occurring in time. For the sake of your health, please read this carefully.