| Show treatment of neuralgia treux neuralgia tic dolo beux reux is a painful condition which comes on suddenly enli lasts for hours and days sometimes then suddenly disappears the pal pain i n is on one side of face and is almost unbearable the treatment in former years was surgery and in some cases today surgery is necessary to rid the patient of this terrible pain fortunately it was found that the injection of alcohol into the main root or nerve bundle supplying the whole side of the face would stop the pain for months in some cases years in others and apparently permanent relief is obtained by some patients the effectiveness of this alcohol injection is recorded by dr W ilar har ris london in brain a british medical journal devoted to the brain and its disturbances dr harris has treated within 30 years 2500 persons suffering from this ailment 1058 1056 in private practice by injection of alcohol he has notes on only of the hospital pa of the 1433 patients were women and were men the ages in majority of cases were between 41 and 70 the cause of tic dolore ux in the opinion of dr harris is infected teeth infected gums abscess and infection of the sinuses letters written to the patients who could be reached revealed that the majority of those who reported had been free of pain for bjorn three to thirty one years some reported that there was still numbness on the one side and others that partial loss of taste occurred on the affected side in some cases complete loss lops of taste on affected side occurred A few r reported that a few weeks after injection a new type of pain appeared |
