can uclerative colits cause bells palsy?

Answer 1

Well from what I know of ulcerative colitis it does not cause bells palsy. I had UC when I was a teenager it has been in remission for 12 years now. My mother-in-law has UC and they haven't told her anything about it causing any other problems. One of the main problems with UC is the fact that you constantly have to know where the nearest bathroom is. And pray that you make it in time. It causes you to have the poop runs very badly at times. Then there are times that you wouldn't even know that you have a problem.
Did you just find out that you have it or are you just curious? Good luck to you if you have it.

If you have it try to limit your dairy products that helps to a point.

Answer 2

Although I am not able to find any form of direct relationship between the two, but Bell's palsy is a diagnosis of exclusion; in many cases, no specific cause can be ascertained.

Some facts about Bell's palsy...


It is supposed to be the result of inflammation of the facial nerve, which produces pressure on the nerve as it exits the skull within its bony canal. Patients with facial palsy for which an underlying cause can be readily found are not generally considered to have Bell's palsy per se. These underlying problems include tumor, meningitis, stroke, diabetes mellitus, head trauma and inflammatory diseases of the cranial nerves (sarcoidosis, brucellosis, etc.) In these conditions, the neurologic findings are rarely restricted to the facial nerve. Babies can be born with facial palsy, and they exhibit many of the same symptoms as people with Bell's palsy; this is often due to a traumatic birth which causes irrepairable damage to the facial nerve, i.e. acute facial nerve paralysis.


The "Bell's smile" is characterized by an asymmetry caused by paralysis of one side of the face.One disease that may be difficult to exclude in the differential diagnosis is involvement of the facial nerve in infections with the herpes zoster virus. The major differences in this condition are the presence of small blisters, or vesicles, of the external ear and hearing disturbances, but these findings may occasionally be lacking.

In recent years, two new suspects have been added to the possible causes of Bell's palsy. Lyme disease may produce the typical palsy, and may be easily diagnosed by looking for Lyme-specific antibodies in the blood. In endemic areas Lyme disease may be the most common cause of facial palsy. The subsequent observation of an increased incidence of antibodies to the Herpes simplex virus in patients with Bell's palsy has led many specialists to believe that this agent is the most likely underlying cause in areas where Lyme disease is uncommon.


Moreover, there is a genetic component to the etiology of ulcerative colitis... for more see the source.

Answer 3

I have heard that "bells palsy" is caused by a virus that normally enters the ear?... a friend of ours who is a the local TV weatherman has/had it... he has just a trace of being able to tell now but at first it was really bad... my "ex-wife in-law" ..... she has it also......some meds help but just as a virus, it will take a little time to get back close to normal anyway.. If you want more inforrmation there is a website called wrongdiagnosis.com... it has a multiple symptom checker and is extremely informative.

Answer 4

Absolutely, unlike what our Western medicine has brain washed us all to believe, the body is a garden and when you have a deficiency, it becomes diseased.


One deficiency or dysfunction leads to another. Its common sense!

For someone else with ulcerative colitis, it could manifest as cancer or Lupus... it just depends on how "out of balance" the garden is...

Your body is all connected and is not car parts to be treated with drugs that mask the deficiency.

You could get bells palsy without ulcerative colitis, but have something else that is illusive and causing it because again, you are deficient and out of balance.

I just don't know why there are so many people who accept their disease and own it and stop looking for answers because their doctor told them that its written in stone that they have to live with it.

They are just professionals who treat symptoms and live with a revolving door of death and disease with no known medical cure. I say, who died and the people in white coats god?