Abstract
Bell's Palsy is an idiopathic facial nerve palsy and also the most common cause of facial nerve palsy. It's incidence is 17/100,000 population per year in women of child bearing age group(WCBA). We, hereby present a case of 26 year old gravida 2, para 1, living 1 with 35 weeks of gestation who presented with gradual onset of facial weakness and few other complaints which after thorough examination were suggestive of Bell's palsy in a case of pre eclampsia. Patient was later posted for C-section at 36 weeks for scar tenderness. In the post operative period patient was on steroids for persistent facial nerve palsy but the patient landed in an unusual complication due to on going steroids as she had failed to follow up. Patient was taken up for exploratory laparotomy, patient tolerated the procedure well and went home on POD-42. Amongst the medications used in this patient for Bell's palsy, we saw that steroids could thus act as a double edged sword and thus close monitoring, follow up and patient compliance is equally important
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