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Bell Palsy (cont.)

Medical Author:
Shahram Lotfipour, MD
Medical Editor:
Patrick Taylor, MD, FAAEM
Medical Editor:
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD
Medical Editor:
Anthony Anker, MD, FAAEM

Bell's Palsy Symptoms

The symptoms commonly develop over hours or days. Men and women are affected equally. The most common symptoms are these:

  • Weakness or complete paralysis of an entire side of the face

  • An eyelid droop

  • Drooling from the affected side of the mouth

  • Pain around the ear

  • Feeling of fullness or swelling to the affected side of the face

  • Impaired sensation of taste or hearing

  • Inability to wrinkle forehead

  • Contour of smile affected
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Bell palsy, more appropriately known as idiopathic facial paralysis (IFP), is believed to be a virally mediated cranial neuritis affecting the facial nerve due to reactivation of the herpes simplex virus (HSV).

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