Facial paralysis in children which check should be done?

Of peripheral facial paralysis in children, following regular checks should be made:

⑴ Biochemistry, blood glucose, blood urea nitrogen, General;

⑵ x line, skull and mastoid x ray radiography;

⑶ neurological examination, including EEG;

D disease location: tear test of stapes muscle reflex, electrometric method of taste;

⑸ facial nerve function, that is, nerve excitability test, this test even the youngest children to the purposes, and preferably in the beginning of facial paralysis, and carried out by the same person every day, sometimes might blink determination of salivary gland;

⑹ Audiometer checks.

In 99 cases caused by middle ear infection of mastoid, 23 cases have completely cured 15 cases antibiotic, 6 mastoid surgery cases through simple, and there are 2 cases of decompression, a total of 2 cases of children with this group is not restored, 9%. In 25 cases of idiopathic facial paralysis, 18 cases of full recovery without surgery, 4 cases recovered by decompression and access to some or all of, the Group has 3 cases of sequela of facial paralysis, 12%. Usage and dosage of hormones of facial paralysis in children are: started hormone therapy within five days after facial paralysis, high-dose for children for over ten years of total amount of 40mg, 20mg to the age of ten, this amount gradually decreasing in the 9th and finished. On decompression, some people do not advocate for the operation should be considered in accordance with various data of facial nerve function; if it considers it necessary to do, it should as soon as possible the purpose.