{"id":2469,"date":"2009-09-04T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neubell\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:09:01","slug":"neubell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neubell\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Criteria for Bell&#8217;s Palsy (Idiopathic Facial Nerve Paralysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bell&#8217;s palsy is a peripheral palsy of the facial nerve that results in muscle weakness on one side of the face.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The diagnosis of Bell&#8217;s palsy is based upon the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a diffuse facial nerve involvement manifested by paralysis of the facial muscles, with or without loss of taste on the anterior two-thirds of the tongue or altered secretion of the lacrimal and salivary glands.<\/li>\n<li>Onset is acute, over a day or two; the course is progressive, reaching maximal clinical weakness\/paralysis within three weeks or less from the first day of visible weakness; and recovery or some degree of function is present within six months.<\/li>\n<li>Associated prodrome, ear pain, dysacusis, is variable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tiemstra JD, Khatkhate N. Bell&#8217;s palsy: diagnosis and management. Am Fam Physician. 2007 Oct 1;76(7):997-1002.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17956069\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gilden DH. Clinical practice. Bell&#8217;s Palsy. N Engl J Med. 2004 Sep 23;351(13):1323-31.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15385659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Sep 08, 2009<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1402,490,1401,16,15,1400,65,64,1399,1398,1300,1397,1396,1403],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","tag-bell","tag-clinical","tag-clinicos","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-facial","tag-idiopathic","tag-idiopatica","tag-nerve","tag-nervio","tag-neurology","tag-palsy","tag-paralisis","tag-paralysis"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}