Abstract
For past one year (from September 1973 to August 1974), nineteen patients who suffered from Bell's palsy were treated in Hamanomachi Hospital. Urine examination of these patients (sixteen of them) revealed that six patients of the sixteen had positive reaction of sugar in their urine and they were examined with glucose tolerance test and other tests for diabetes mellitus. All of the six were diagnosed diabetes mellitus. They were 38 of the sixteen patients who presented Bell's palsy and whose urine was tested at the first seeing.
The six patients did not show severe diabetic symptoms such as urinal aceton, other neuropathy and angiopathy. On our cases, we do not consider that Bell's palsy was not induced by so called diabetic neuropathy, but diabetes acted as a part of the stress which developed the palsy.
The Bell's palsy of the six patients recovered completely as well as the non-diabetic patients after the combined treatments for Bell's palsy and for diabetes.
