Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Bell's palsy, Blood test, Magnetic resonance imaging, SARS-CoV-2 test
Clinical narrative: 2 days later he developed Bell's Palsy; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team for a Pfizer sponsored program. The reporter is the patient.  A 56 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm left, administration date in Jan2021 or Feb2021 (Batch/Lot number: unknown) as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Diabetic" (unspecified if ongoing); "Crohn's disease" (unspecified if ongoing); "immunosuppressed" (unspecified if ongoing); "Covid positive", start date: Dec2020 (unspecified if ongoing). Concomitant medication(s) included: ENTYVIO taken for crohn's disease (ongoing). Past drug history included: Remicade for Crohn's disease, reaction(s): "reaction "; Humira for Crohn's disease. The following information was reported: BELL'S PALSY (medically significant) with onset at night of first dose of covid vaccine, Jan2021 or Feb2021, outcome "recovered", described as "2 days later he developed Bell's Palsy". The event "2 days later he developed bell's palsy" was evaluated at the physician office visit and emergency room visit. Caller states he went to the ER that night. Clarified that it was the same day that he got the Covid vaccine. He states that he thinks it might have been the second day. He states that when he went to the ER, they performed the MRI and was there like 2 or 3 hours. They gave him medication and then sent him back home. Clarified that the caller was not admitted to the hospital. No prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks). AE(s) following prior vaccinations was none. The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: blood test: (19Jan2022) bell's palsy; magnetic resonance imaging: (unspecified date) unknown result; sars-cov-2 test: (Dec2020) positive. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of bell's palsy. The Bell's Palsy went away after taking the Prednisone, the caller states that actually, what happened was that on that day of the vaccination, in the night time, that evening, he saw that and was looking around and thinking he might have got some stroke or something. He went to the emergency room and they said it was Bell's Palsy. They took an MRI and stuff like that and saw that he had no stroke or anything like that. They did some blood tests and they said it was Bell's Palsy. Caller states that it took some 10 days for it to be cured and states that he thinks it completely took him like 2 or 3 months to completely go away. After that, he went to the eye doctor and they took some gauze and told him to put it on at night time. He states that the eye doctor took care of that and gave him some eye drops. Caller states there was no special medication. Clarified that the caller had no other treatments other than the Prednisone and eye drops during this time. Caller stated that when they do the infusions, they do blood work. He states that 19Jan2022 he had the last infusion and blood work.   The lot number for bnt162b2 was not provided and will be requested during follow up.