Activity 2
Answer the questions below in the discussion forum:
Your patient recently had a viral infection and now she cannot move the muscles on the right side of her face. In addition, she is experiencing a loss of taste and dry mouth and she cannot close her right eye. Which cranial nerves have been affected by the viral infection?
Answer: The patient exhibits the damaging effects of Bell’s Palsy. Their facial (VII) mixed cranial nerve is affected by their recent viral infection (assuming it's from shingles), thus causing the loss of taste, dry mouth, and inability to close their right eye.