What causes twitching of the corners of the mouth?

Everyone talks a lot every day, so talking too much can easily cause facial muscle fatigue, so twitching may occur. This is normal and there is no need to worry too much. However, some men have found that even if they do not talk, the muscles at the corners of their mouths are prone to twitching. What causes this?

Twitching of the corners of the mouth is a disease

The clinical name of mouth corner twitching is facial muscle twitching, hemifacial spasm, and primary facial muscle twitching. It is neither a precursor to cerebral thrombosis nor facial neuritis. Twitching is a manifestation of involuntary movement and a pathological phenomenon of neuromuscular disease, manifested as involuntary contraction of striated muscles. The following types are common in clinical practice: convulsions, tonic spasms, myoclonus, tremors, choreiform movements, athetosis, torsion spasms, fasciculations, and habitual twitches. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the causes and pathogenesis of twitching mainly include internal heat and toxicity, wind-yang disturbance, wind-toxicity paralysis, and yin-blood deficiency. It is commonly seen in brain diseases, infectious diseases, poisoning, internal head injuries, syncope, foetal epilepsy, postpartum spasm, infantile shock, tetanus, rabies, etc. When the type of disease with convulsion as the main symptom cannot be determined clinically, convulsions can be used as a preliminary diagnosis and treatment can be carried out based on syndrome differentiation.

Causes

There are many causes of convulsions, and the symptoms also have many manifestations, the main ones are: fever, fever, constipation, phlegm in the throat, yellow phlegm, yellow and greasy tongue coating, high fever and thirst, constipation and abdominal distension, macules, stringy tongue, irritability, red eyes, bitter mouth, constant irritability and insomnia, blood deficiency, frequent convulsions, frequent convulsions, excessive phlegm, excessive phlegm, poor appetite, abdominal distension, cold limbs, loose stools, clenched jaws, opisthotonos, whole body spasms, twitching of upper and lower limbs, irregular attacks, and clear consciousness.