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What Causes Facial Spasms For A Diabetic Patient?
I have a 9 year old son who has type 1 diabetes who just recently as of november 2013 started having facial spasms were his lip twitches while he sleeps an kind of pulls to the side when he is awake he has about 6 or seven of these per day and it really gets bad when he is excited what can I do
Mon, 7 Apr 2014
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in diabetes usually cranial nerves involved r 3rd, 4th & 6th - all these r concerned nerves r involved with movements of eyes.
it also involves 7 th cranial nerves
but in a recently diagnosed Type 1 diabetes this is a rare incidence.
twitching of muscles can have a variety of causes
get his serum electrolytes done since in uncontrolled diabetes these get altered and can lead to twitching
take care
in diabetes usually cranial nerves involved r 3rd, 4th & 6th - all these r concerned nerves r involved with movements of eyes.
it also involves 7 th cranial nerves
but in a recently diagnosed Type 1 diabetes this is a rare incidence.
twitching of muscles can have a variety of causes
get his serum electrolytes done since in uncontrolled diabetes these get altered and can lead to twitching
take care
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