ASPIRE Blog

NY/NJ/CT PANS/PANDAS Support Meet Up group Sunday, January 12 2 PM – 4 PM Panera Bread – 377 Tarrytown Rd, White Plains, NY Questions? Contact Lisa/ PANS life

It is a New Year and a new decade. Everyone is making resolutions.  But you are still dealing with PANS/PANDAS.
So how do we make resolutions that empower us and don’t set us up to fail or forget to follow through mid-year? How do we do this when we want to pull our hair out and shout – help! I can’t handle any more! Throw me a lifeline!

Preparing for Immunology Appointments & What Immunologists Should Know About PANS Wendy Nawara, MSW, ASPIRE Past President & Founding Board Member, interviews Maeve E. O’Connor, MD FACAAI FAAAAI FACP on the Prepping for Immunology Appointments. Full Video Below. Wendy Nawara: We are at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition. And I’m Wendy Nawara from ASPIRE, and […]

ASPIRE at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference Wendy Nawara, MSW, ASPIRE Past President & Founding Board Member, interviews Maeve E. O’Connor, MD FACAAI FAAAAI FACP on the Changing Views at AAP on IVIG PANS/PANDAS. Full video below. Wendy Nawara: Dr. O’Connor as you have stood at our booth and you have seen professionals […]

PANS PANDAS in your classroom – Available in Flier size – 8.5×11 and Two poster sizes.

Available in Flyer size – 8.5×11 and Two poster sizes.

Could psychiatric symptoms be caused by an infection – Available in Flier size – 8.5×11 and Two poster sizes.

PANS PANDAS Has No Age Restriction
– Available in Flier size – 8.5×11 and Two poster sizes.

PANS PANDAS Affects School Children – Available in Flier size – 8.5×11 and Two poster sizes.

Learn About PANS PANDAS – Available as Flyer and in two poster sizes.

Polymicrobial nature of tick-borne diseases 430 of 678 (63%) positive for at least one human pathogen 57% Adults/27% Nymphs – Lyme 14% Adults/15% Nymphs -Babesia 14% Adults/2% Nymphs – Anaplasmosis 3% Adults – Tick-borne Relapsing Fever 2% Adults – Powassan The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) transmits five pathogens to humans: Lyme (Borrelia burgdorferi), Babesia (Babesia […]