The PANS Diagnostic Criteria require the new or worsening of OCD and/or severely restricted eating along with symptoms from two out of seven categories. However, many patients have many more symptoms than just the required ones. It is interesting to note that the somatic symptoms such as urinary frequency, mydriasis, and insomnia, help differentiate PANDAS from Tourette syndrome or non-PANDAS OCD.
Dr. Miroslav Kovacevic presented on PANS PANDAS symptom frequency at the PANS/PANDAS Advisory Summit in 2017. The PANS Research Consortium pooled data several members collected within their practices.
PANS has multiple triggers, severities, and symptoms. It is essentially a spectrum disorder. Referring to PANS as a spectrum disorder does not mean it is part of the Autism Spectrum Disorder. It means that one patient with PANS can have very different profiles due to variations in symptomology and triggers. This graphic is only an example of symptoms, severity, and triggers. This graphic is not meant to encompass every combination possible. It is to convey that one cannot assume that because they know one patient with PANS, every patient is going to be similar.
Learn more about PANS and Autism in ASPIRE’s Professional Advisory Board’s Toolkit on PANS/PANDAS Guidelines for Children with Autism. This informational toolkit discusses the unique challenges of diagnosing PANS PANDAS in children with Autism, what it can look like in the school setting, the PANS diagnostic criteria, and treatment guidelines.
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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.