October 9th is PANDAS Awareness Day, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus occurs when streptococcus (what we know as strep throat) triggers a misdirected immune response and results in inflammation on a child’s brain. In turn, the child quickly begins to exhibit life changing symptoms such as OCD, anxiety, tics, personality changes, decline in …
As a parent of a child with PANS/PANDAS we ask a lot of questions, acting as a detective, trying to get to the bottom of our child’s illness, we want answers, something or someone to blame. We want to know why did this happen? How did this happen? What did we do to make this …
Welcome to my first blog post! If you have found yourself here you may be looking for pictures or stories about cuddly panda bears. Unfortunately, this site is not about fuzzy panda bears it’s about an illness that too many children are being misdiagnosed with. An illness that is commonly misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder …
