Pediatric mental illness & developmental disorder diagnoses are growing at an alarming rate. Finding the cause is crucial.
When a child has a sudden, dramatic personality change displayed as OCD with other symptoms such as anxiety, tics, sensory issues, ADHD, age regression, restrictive eating & more, something is wrong.
There may be an undetected strep, bacterial, or viral infection triggering a misdirected immune response resulting in brain inflammation. This is called PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Assoc w/ Strep infections) or PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndromes).
CORRECT DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT can save a child.
States proclaimed October 9 PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day. It is time for NATIONAL AWARENESS.
-On behalf of PANDASnetwork.org