🧵4/3:
Should we reconsider steroid use in pediatric Bell's palsy? Does that apply to prescription of vitamins and supplements?
To know more:
DOI: 10.3390/jcm14010079

#PediatricNeurology #BellsPalsy #MedicalResearch #Pediatrics

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More insights:
- No significant correlation between recovery and age, gender, or side of paralysis ❎
- Higher steroid doses linked to poorer outcomes 💉
- Vitamin supplementation showed no significant impact 💊
- Lab markers (NLR, TLR, LDH) not predictive of recovery 🥽

🧵 2/3 Key finding: 81.8% achieved complete recovery at 2 months, but steroid use was associated with lower recovery. Nothing too new: the @AANmember and the @AAOHNS have called for RCTs questioning the usefulness of steroids in pediatric Bell’s palsy cases.

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Just published in : Our study on pediatric Bell's palsy reveals surprising findings about steroid treatment. We analyzed 88 children with Bell's palsy over 13 years at Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

Take home message: I could use some more carefulness when assessing probabilities 😁

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

Took the Brier test today; it’s a way of testing how accurate you are in your predictions. Indirectly, it’s a way of measuring your sense of security and how biased you might be in taking decisions.
For the test & a really interesting piece on probability: go.nature.com/3vakwqj

Bit late but happy to share I’m
joining the @plos.org Digital Health Editorial Board as a Guest Academic Editor! 🙏🏼