BOSTON -- Tiffany Uttam was facing every parent’s nightmare. Her nine-year-old son became abruptly ill, and no one could seem to help. He was suddenly anxious and paranoid, hallucinating and...
Parents push for coverage, awareness of rare syndrome. Local families grappling with a rare and elusive syndrome will make the case for greater acknowledgement and support at the State House...
After infections, some children are misdiagnosed with mental health conditions. A reality of trauma and many other mental health problems is the complexity of causes. This means that sustainable...
Results of the population-based study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found that infections that required hospitalization or treatment with anti-infective medications, such as antibiotics, antifungals...
Two years ago, Craig and Erica Mills packed up the family minivan and headed north from Toronto to a campground in Tobermory, Ont. Annual camping trips were loved by their three young sons—two days...
In 2017, then-Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law what was known as Charlie’s Law that required insurance companies to cover treatment costs for certain auto immune diseases in children. One...
A teenage boy is once again happy and healthy after an 18-month long battle to discover what was wrong with him. A report published in the Journal of Central Nervous System Disease on Monday detailed...
IT SEEMED so unremarkable at first, something only a mother would notice. Instead of running to the sink like most middle schoolers and washing his hands as fast as he could, 13-year-old Connor...
In rare cases, a strep infection can cause kids to experience extreme OCD behaviours, a condition called PANDAS. Many doctors don't know it exists. Two years ago, Craig and Erica Mills packed up...
A child is happy and easygoing one day, then literally overnight refuses to eat, sleep alone, or go to school. He or she may have tics, difficulty sleeping and headaches. The sudden, dramatic onset...
There’s nothing black and white about this mysterious and controversial diagnosis. If your child suffers sudden mental health problems following a case of strep throat, this autoimmune condition...
One afternoon in the winter of 2017, Corie Entrop’s 10-year-old son came home from school and began pulling out his hair. When the Alberta mother pleaded with him to tell her why he was doing it,...
In August of 2014 our daughter, Leah, was 6 years old. We had just returned home from a month-long trip to Illinois to visit family. When we arrived home in Arizona, she suddenly (overnight) developed a fear of vomit.