Bell's Palsy

What is Bell's Palsy?

Bell's Palsy or also known as facial palsy, a disease that attacks the nerves, causing paralysis of facial muscles on one side of the face. Nerve dysfunction is associated with motor face, including expression.

What are the causes of Bell's Palsy?

Bell's Palsy is caused by nerve damage caused by inflammation, pressure, or swelling. Causes of Bell’s Palsy are often also associated with exposure to viral infection.

What are the symptoms of Bell's Palsy?

• The asymmetry of the face
• Numbness in face
• Tears cannot be controlled and the corner of the eye down
• Conjunctival reflex loss that cannot turn a blind eye
• Pain in the ear, especially under the ear
• Can not stand loud sounds on the affected side
• Corners of the mouth down
• Difficult to talk
• Dripping water when drinking or after cleaning teeth
• Loss of taste on the front of the tongu

How the diagnosis?

Here are some checks that are usually recommended doctors to distinguish Bell's palsy with facial muscle weakness due to other conditions such as stroke, infection and tumors.

• Electromyography (EMG), these tests can show how much nerve damage occurred, and to ensure the extent of the severity of the disorder. EMG measures the electrical activity of muscle during stimulation responding committed against her.
• Imaging scans, X-ray examination with, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), or Computerized Tomography (CT) can be sure the cause of nervous disorders was not due to infection, tumor, or bone damage on the face.

Bell ́s Palsy Treatment

Most of Bell's palsy patients can recover with or without treatment. However, a doctor may recommend drug therapy (corticosteroids and antiviral drugs) or physical therapy to speed recovery. Surgery is rarely an option for the treatment of Bell's palsy.

Prevention

• Avoid bathing in the night
• Avoid the habit of washing your face or shower immediately after exercise
• Avoid exposure to direct wind to the face

Complication

Some complications that may arise, including:

• Loss of taste (ageusia)
• Permanent facial nerve damage
• Chronic facial spasm (contraction of spontaneous twitching of the nerves that control the muscles of the face such as the eyebrows, eyelids, mouth, lips)
• Corneal infections Full or partial blindness 

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Definition of Tumor

Tumor is tissue the body's growth, where there is an abnormal proliferation of cells. Synonyms of the word tumor are a neoplasm. Tumor in the form of mass solid or filled with fluid which increased its size. Meaning tumor is not the same as the cancer. Cancer is a malignant, while tumor there is a benign, malignant, or without any cancer potential.

Tumor occurs when cells divide and grow excessively in the body. New cells are created to replace older ones or to perform new functions. Cells are damaged or no longer needed die to make room for a healthy substitute. If the balance of cell growth and cell death is compromised, it will be forming what is called a tumor.

Differences Tumor Benign and Malignant Tumors

Benign Tumors

The term "benign" this means mild or not progressive. It said if the tumor is benign proliferative disorder of these cells do not invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body, the term is metastasis. In most cases, benign tumor prognosis is very good. However, benign tumors can be a serious matter if they are on vital structures such as blood vessels or nerves. Therefore, sometimes tumor types require treatment and sometimes not.

Benign tumors are usually surrounded by a fibrous sheath (capsules) that inhibit their ability to behave malignant. However, many types of benign tumors have the potential to become malignant, such as teratoma.

Malignant Tumors

The word "malignant" which means bad and potentially deadly to the characteristics of anaplasia, invasive and metastatic. Malignant tumors are cancer, and cancer is not necessarily shaped tumor, where cancer cells can invade and damage tissues and organs near the tumor (invasive). Cancer cells can break away from a malignant tumor and enter the lymphatic system or the bloodstream. Cancer spreads from the original tumor to form new tumors in other parts of the body, the term is metastasis. Another difference with benign tumors, most malignant tumors is not encapsulated.

Specifically, malignant tumor cells may have a cell shape changes that contribute to their rapid proliferation. Many malignant cells also have abnormal chromosomes or genes changed, and they produce an abnormal protein. Many changes of properties of cells in malignant cells allow a pathologist, to determine which process is called "staging" the tumor.

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