Post-Influenza Peripheral Facial Paralysis: A Case Report and Literature Review at the National Reference General Hospital of N’Djamena (Chad)

eral etiologies.In most cases it is an idiopathic pathology.Other etiologies described are: infectious, mainly viral (Lyme disease; Herpes and HIV, etc.), hence the flu-like syndrome often described.Etiologies are also inflammatory (sarcoidosis), metabolic (diabetes), neoplastic and neurological.And post COVID-19 causes have been recently described.Stress and post-influenza infection are the most commonly found antecedents.In the clinical case described, the patient had a sore throat a few weeks before the onset of the first symptoms.The most objective way to assess the severity and recovery is electromyography.It assesses the intensity of the damage and recovery.Several electroneuromyograms must be performed.In sub-Saharan Africa, this examination remains difficult to access due to the sometimes limited technical facilities and its cost.Most authors agree that, in the face of idiopathic peripheral facial paralysis, treatment should be started with corticosteroids (prednisolone) and acyclovir.Physiotherapy also plays an important role.Conclusion: Bell's peripheral facial palsy represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the practitioner in our context.In most cases it remains idiopathic.