PANDAS: Nightline – ABC News
View the story hereParents of PANDAS parents face skepticism even as their children recover.
20/20: What Is PANDAS – ABC Television
View the story hereAlexia Baier was an eager-to-learn, 4-year-old girl beginning pre-K in a suburb outside of Chicago. She thrived academically — counting, painting and playing with other children.
But five months after starting pre-K, she was infected with a bacteria that several millions of people get every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria, group A strep, caused Alexia to get strep throat, a condition children usually recover from easily with treatment.
Girl Develops Psychosis from Strep Infection – The Daily Mail
View the story here‘She won’t let me touch her clothes, she says we are contaminated’: Mother of girl who developed psychosis from a strep infection describes agony of living with the mystery condition.”