PANDAS/PANS: Is a brain infection driving your child’s OCD, Tics & Psychosis?
Pediatric Autoimmune Neuro-psychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS)/ Pediatric Acute-onset Neuro-psychiatric Syndrome (PANS) are a sub type of acute-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) thought to be caused by an autoimmune response to group A streptococcal infection. Other studies have suggested that chronic stress as well as other types of infections can result in neuro-psychiatric conditions, including: Lyme disease, Mycoplasma pneumonia/mycotoxins,…