Question

A woman is admitted to the hospital with Bell's palsy caused by an inflamed facial nerve. You are the attending physician. What symptoms do you observe? How do you test her facial nerve?​

Answer 1

In Bell's palsy, the facial nerve that is injured and inflamed causes symptoms like twitching, weakness, or paralysis on one side of the face, sometimes both; drooling; a drooping eyelid or one corner of the mouth droops.