There is a folk saying that 'the left eye jumps to wealth, the right eye jumps to disaster'. Is this really reliable? Is there any scientific basis?
Core tips in daily life, many people have experienced eyelid skipping. Some people's eyelids jump, through rest, massage and other ways to eliminate symptoms, but some people's eyelids jump, but can jump into the size of the eyes, and even the corners of the mouth will follow the twitch. Why is eyelid skipping so serious? Under what circumstances should we see a doctor in time? In this regard, neurosurgeon of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of science and technology reminds us that long term unilateral eyelid skipping should be alert to hemifacial spasm.
Cases are eyelid jump, but the results are very different
Ms. Li, 25, lives in the old city. In the past half a month, she found that her lower eyelid of right eye was always beating. Thinking of the old saying 'wealth in left eye, disaster in right eye', Ms. Li was even more flustered and worried about whether she would get any serious illness. As the eyelid beat for many days did not improve, Ms. Li rushed to the hospital for examination, the doctor told her that there was no serious problem, is caused by tension and fatigue.
Ms. Zhou, 56, who lives in Luolong District, is not so lucky. Her left eye jumped for five years, not only did not jump out of money, but also 'jumped' out of facial spasm. Five years ago, Ms. Zhou's left eye occasionally slightly beat. She didn't care at that time. Two months later, it became serious, and the scope of convulsions expanded. Ms. Zhou took medicine and acupuncture treatment in the local clinic, but she didn't get better. After a long time, not only did she convulse around her eyes, but also her left eye, cheek and corner of mouth, And the more frequent, although the disease is not painful, but also caused a lot of trouble to her work and life. Recently, accompanied by her son, Ms. Zhou went to the neurosurgery department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Heke University. This is a typical hemifacial spasm. According to years of clinical experience and careful analysis of the disease, Yang Jinsheng, deputy director of neurosurgery and deputy chief physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of Heke University, made a diagnosis.
Explain the physiological eyelid jump rest is good, pathology is not so simple
Yang Jinsheng introduced that the eyelid is called the eyelid, and there are mainly two kinds of muscles controlling the eyelid activity: one is the orbicularis oculi muscle, which closes the eyelid when it contracts; the other is the levator palpebrae muscle, which opens the eyes when it contracts. These two kinds of muscles cooperate with each other, constantly contract and relax, and the eyelids can be opened and closed. However, if the nerves that control these two kinds of muscles are stimulated and excited continuously, these two kinds of muscles will contract repeatedly and even spasm and vibrate, which leads to the phenomenon of eyelid skipping.
The same is eyelid jump, what is the difference? Yang Jinsheng told reporters, eyelid jump is divided into physiological eyelid jump and pathological eyelid jump. Physiological eyelid jump often occurs in a short time, weak beating degree, mostly because of excessive eye use, or physical fatigue, mental tension, pressure caused by too much, teenagers are more common. Long term lack of sleep, excessive smoking and drinking, cold, lack of regular life, suffering from neurosis patients are also prone to eyelid beat. This kind of eyelid jump will not affect health, just close your eyes to rest, a little eye massage or out of the stimulating environment, natural recovery.
But if it continues, or even develops into a corner of the mouth twitch, then it is likely to be a facial spasm. Hemifacial spasm is mainly caused by the compression of facial nerve by blood vessels. The blood vessels are compressed on the facial nerve. Under the constant beating and friction of blood vessels, the outer protective membrane of the nerve is worn, causing abnormal excitation discharge and 'short circuit' of the facial nerve, resulting in hemifacial spasm.
'it's a disease that can't heal itself. Severe cases can lead to persistent muscle spasm, resulting in difficulty opening eyes, or facial changes. Yang Jinsheng said that facial spasm is a functional nervous system disease. Muscle twitch itself is painless and not life-threatening. However, the psychological impact of the disease on patients is enormous. Some patients have feelings of inferiority, depression and anxiety due to involuntary facial twitch, which seriously affects their normal work and life.
Treatment of botulinum toxin treatment is easy to relapse, surgical treatment can be removed root
So how to treat this abnormal beating? It is understood that in the treatment of facial spasm, botulinum toxin, which is often used by beauty loving women to remove wrinkles and thin face, is also used by many people to treat facial spasm. Is it reliable?
Many patients are afraid of surgery and choose non-surgical treatment for the time being. 'Yang Jinsheng, blocking the conduction of facial nerve with drug injection, although it can eliminate the symptoms of facial spasm in a certain period of time, this method can not solve the pressure of blood vessels on the nerve, which is easy to relapse, and will produce drug resistance after a long time.
Yang Jinsheng said that modern medical research shows that microvascular compression is closely related to the onset of facial spasm. At present, microvascular compression surgery is the most fundamental treatment for hemifacial spasm. Through the incision in the posterior auricular hairline, a bone hole with a diameter of about 1.5cm was made to find the responsible blood vessel of the compressed facial nerve under the microscope. A special gasket was used to separate the compressed nerve from the blood vessel, so that the nerve was not directly stimulated and the hemifacial spasm was cured.
If eyelid skipping lasts more than three months, we should be alert to hemifacial spasm