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      Kylene Jones
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        10 month old baby girl born with normal facial function. By 12 days old, the right eye doesn’t fully blink, delayed ability to form tears on the right side, doesn’t raise or furrow the right brow, and doesn’t smile/frown with the right side of mouth. No known trauma or exposure to anything abnormal. Breast fed. Healthy family environment. Brain MRI showed no abnormality at the facial nucleus. Infectious disease doctor did bloodwork and was all negative. DO thinks it is possibly a fungal infection. Any ideas at all on how to treat this? Thinking it may be something like Bell’s Palsy.  Plan is for reanimation surgery at 3 years old. What can we do to help her?

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        Scarlett
        Student

          It sounds viral, bacterial, fungal / nerve related / maybe an alternative DO and or chiropractor would be able to think out of the box since all tests are negative?  This may not be very helpful but it’s what I thought of first.

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