Category: Neurology
Keywords: bell palsy (PubMed Search)
Posted: 5/27/2009 by Aisha Liferidge, MD
(Updated: 11/23/2024)
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-- Age greater than 60 years
-- Diabetes
-- Decreased taste or salivary flow on the affected side
-- Complete paralysis
-- Synkinesis - abnormal contracture of facial muscles with smiling or
closing eyes; may cause slight chin movement with blinking, eye closure
with smiling, contracture around mouth with blinking.
-- Crocodile tears - lacrimation while eating.
-- Hemifacial muscle spasms - tonic contractures of affected side of face,
rare, often seen during times of fatigue, stress, or while sleeping.