Bell's palsy, a peripheral facial nerve paresis, is the most common disorder of the facial nerve and one of the most common mononeuropathies. Many patients with Bell's palsy will develop some complications such as synkinesis, crocodile tears and 'sweating' of the ear while eating Commonly used medications to treat Bell's palsy is Corticosteroids Cerebrolysin stimulates the regeneration of the nervous tissue with protective action we aim to study the efficacy of cerebrolycin in Bell's palsy
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
90
prednisolone 60mg tablet once daily for 5 days then tapering dose
intramuscular Cerebrolysin 10 mg daily for 3 weeks
October 6 university hospital
Giza, Egypt
RECRUITINGchange in scores of the house Brackman grading system HB
Time frame: at baseline, after 1 week, after 3 week
changes in scores of the Sunnybrook grading system.
Time frame: at baseline, after 1 week, after 3 week
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