Today we are joined again by integrative paediatrician, Holistic Mama Doc, Dr Elisa Song to continue the discussion on PANDAS and PANS. Today we dive a little deeper into how to identify patients...
Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) and Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) are two disorders affecting a growing number of...
Dr. Claude Ashley first learned about PANDAS disease in 2007 at a conference. Just a few years later, his own son developed the ailment, in which an immune response to strep, a common childhood...
One family’s experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder and its shocking root cause. When middle school student Connor Odom road-tripped with his family from their home in Charlotte, North...
Dritan Agalliu Presentaion SIUH Regina McGinn May...
A previously healthy 7-year-old boy suddenly started blinking, grimacing, and jerking his head about every 10 seconds. Uncharacteristically, he hardly sat still and had a tantrum. Ten days after this...
Dr. Kovacevic presents on PANDAS/PANS at the 2017 summit located in Wheaton,...
At 7 years old, Paul Michael Nelson was the kind of quiet, brilliant kid you were likely to find in Silicon Valley — captivated by Legos, self-taught in origami, loving and sweet. But on March 2,...
Dr. Elena Frid discusses Lyme disease, infection induced autoimmune encephalitis. This is a great intro session is for anyone who is suffering or researching encephalitis diagnoses, CFS (chronic...
PANS/PANDAS: Clinical & Research Update" Presented by: Gail Bernstein, MD Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of Minnesota Objectives: Upon completion of the activity, participants should...
The immune response to invasive microbes involves two main components: the innate and adaptive response. C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) are proteins elevated during inflammation. In Lyme disease, CRP is elevated in early stages with erythema migrans but normal in neurological symptoms and arthritis. However, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) shows higher CRP, indicating persistent inflammation. SAA is elevated only in patients with erythema migrans. These findings suggest that lingering symptoms post-antibiotic therapy in Lyme disease are associated with elevated CRP, warranting further study on long-term inflammatory processes.
My son, Ezra, was kidnapped. It was on October 28, 2008. He was 3 ½. It didn’t happen because he was unattended in a shopping cart or running around the playground. It was while he slept,...