Difficulty Opening Mouth

Seek professional care if you experience any of the following symptoms

• Visual field defect

• Impossible to walk normally

• Difficulty breathing / breathlessness

• Abnormal sensation (tingling, prickling)

• Muscle weakness in the limbs

• Unilateral blindness

• Recent weight loss

• Disorder of consciousness

• Numbness of the body

• Altered mental status (delirium)

• Headache

• Seizure attack

• Head injury

• Fever

• Acute tonsillitis / pharyngitis

  Infection of the tonsils and pharynx (back of the mouth), either by viruses or bacteria.

• Spinal cord tumor

  A spinal tumor is a tumor that develops within the spinal canal or the bones of the spine. It can be life-threatening and cause permanent disability. Causes include environmental toxins, certain inherited syndromes, such as neurofibromatosis 2 and von Hippel-Lindau disease.

• Muscular dystrophy

  A group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. In this condition, abnormal genes (mutations) interfere with the production of proteins needed to form healthy muscle.

• Parkinson disease (PD)

• Multiple system atrophy

• Spinocerebellar degeneration

• Wilson disease

• Cerebral infarction

  Cerebral infarction is the term given to damage to brain tissue as a result of stroke. Cerebral infarction occurs due to reduced blood supply and oxygen delivery to the brain. This results in the death of brain cells and brain damage. It is usually caused by a blood clot or fatty/ cholesterol plaques blocking a blood vessel to the brain, but can also happen if a blood vessel ruptures and bleeds into the brain.

• Cerebral hemorrhage
• Tetanus