Dementia face

Introduction Dementia face: head and neck short, small eye cracks, wide nose, flat nose, large nose, wide and thick tongue and often stick out. There are many cases of apathy, gait instability, dementia, dementia face, convulsions, hypopituitarism, fatigue, and unresponsiveness. Common in patients with stagnation and senile dementia. It can also appear in snoring, adenoid appearance. When the child sleeps, his mouth will breathe, and the face may develop abnormally under the impact of the airflow, becoming faceless and appearing as a "dementia" face.

Cause

Common in patients with stagnation and senile dementia. It can also appear in snoring, adenoid appearance. When the child sleeps, his mouth will breathe, and the face may develop abnormally under the impact of the airflow, becoming faceless and appearing as a "dementia" face.

Adenoid appearance refers to the development of facial bones due to adenoid hypertrophy, the jaws become long, the humerus is high arch, the dentition is uneven, the upper incisors are prominent, the lips are thick, and the expression lacking expression can also become " Dementia face."

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Within 9 weeks of birth, patients with small ailments can express a special face with thick lips, large tongue and often stretched out, often open and sputum, pale or yellow, short nose and upturned, nose collapse, and forehead wrinkles.

Alzheimer's disease: dementia face, slow movement, gait instability, sitting, answering questions, can not describe the medical history, pale tongue, scalloped tongue, normal blood pressure.

When the child sleeps, his mouth will breathe, and the face may develop abnormally under the impact of the airflow, becoming faceless and appearing as a "dementia" face.

Adenoid appearance refers to the development of facial bones due to adenoid hypertrophy, the jaws become long, the humerus is high arch, the dentition is uneven, the upper incisors are prominent, the lips are thick, and the expression lacking expression can also become " Dementia face."

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of dementia face:

1. Smiley face: Tetanus is a nervous system syndrome caused by Clostridium tetanus toxin. Patients with local or systemic muscles or tonic spasm, often affected by facial and neck muscles, closed jaws and "smiley face".

2, chronic face: face gray or pale, face stunned, gaze. Common in chronic wasting diseases, such as cirrhosis, malignant tumors, severe tuberculosis.

3, measles face: two eyes are red and afraid of light, increased secretions in the eyes, nasal obstruction, accompanied by fever and cough.

4, anemia face: pale and dull, eyelids, lips and tongue pale, expression tired and weak.

5, typhoid face: expression is indifferent, slow response, showing no desire. Mostly, the face of patients with high fever and fever, such as typhoid fever, encephalitis, and meningitis.

6, mask face: facial expression is dull, like wearing a mask, common in patients with encephalitis, tremor paralysis.

7, acromegaly face: head enlargement, facial lengthening, large jaw and forward protruding, two bones uplift, ear and nose increased, thicker lips, common in patients with pituitary tumors.

8, half of the face of the face: semi-lateral muscles irregular facial convulsions, sometimes only for the blink of the eye or mouth twitching, common in patients with facial nerve spasm sequelae and trigeminal neuralgia, central nervous system disorders.

9, mucinous edema face: the characteristic face of hypothyroidism in adulthood. Chinese medicine believes that it belongs to spleen qi deficiency and kidney yang deficiency syndrome; Western medicine believes that it is more common in hypothyroidism. This type of face can also be seen in testicular and pituitary dysfunction.

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