Bell's palsy Q&A: Can cold showers, lack of sleep and stress cause facial paralysis?

[00:00:00]Can cold showers, lack of sleep, and stress cause facial paralysis?

[00:00:06]In principle, none of these circumstances can cause facial paralysis as a separate one. But, usually, facial palsy happens as a combination of several factors that coincide within the same time in the same place. Cold shower, well, yes, it can cause local overcooling and reflexive spasm of the blood vessel that supply the facial nerve with the blood and, of course, the oxygen because oxygen is the the most essential thing for the functioning of our nervous system.

[00:00:41]Could be lack of sleep and stress. Yes, it does. Uh can become a factor, a aggravating factor, because when you are stressed, when you have lack of sleep, then the your immune system becomes less capable, the resources of your body become lower, and all kinds of bacteria and viruses that we carry in our body without even knowing that, start, so to say, to have a party because the immune system is not as strong as it is when you are healthy, well-rested, and not stressed.