Trigeminal neuralgia, what should you know about this disease!
Trigeminal neuralgia is a facial pain complaint one-sided attacks are repeated. Trigeminal neuralgia is called, because of pain in the face of this occurs in one or more nerves than the three branches of Trigeminal nerve. Considerable nerve is located in the brain and carries sensation from the face to the brain. The pain is caused by a disturbance in Trigeminal nerve function in accordance with the neural distribution of one of the Trigeminal nerve branches caused by a variety of causes.
Trigeminal neuralgia causes facial pain. Trigeminal neuralgia develops in mid to late life. The condition is most common is pain caused by nerve disorders. The pain often comes and goes, feels like an explosion, stabbing, or like an electric shock. This pain can last from several seconds to several minutes.
People with Trigeminal Neuralgia often feel the pain became intermittent severely disrupt daily activities like eating and sleeping. They live in fear of unpredictable painful attacks, which resulted in sleep deprivation and depression. The condition can lead to irritability, severe anticipatory anxiety and depression and malnutrition. At more severe levels continued to commit suicide.
This condition is not clear why. Some experts argue that the syndrome is caused by traumatic damage to the nerve as it passes from the openings in the skull to the muscles and tissues of the face. This leads to nerve damage, causing nerve cells to release a protective and conductive coating.
Other experts believe the cause comes from biochemical changes in the nerve tissue itself. More recent ideas are that the abnormal blood vessel pressing against a nerve when it came out of the brain itself. Trigeminal neuralgia is a relatively rare disease, but very disturbed the life of people, but actually giving a drug to treat Trigeminal neuralgia is usually quite effective. This drug will block the pain signals sent to the brain, so pain is reduced, just that many people who do not know and do not understand about Trigeminal neuralgia as pain inflicted due to abnormalities of the teeth, so treatment is not complete.
Symptoms of Trigeminal neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia is a characteristic of a trigger zone-a small area in the middle of the face, usually on the cheeks, nose, or mouth, which, when stimulated, triggers a typical explosion of pain.
Treatment of Trigeminal neuralgia
Because the nerve pain comes from deep inside the skull, there are no drugs that effectively treat this disease. The only way is surgery
