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Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) is a condition that affects children and can be brought on or made worse by an infection from Streptococcus bacteria. The symptoms are similar to those of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or a tic disorder. It’s a rare condition, although its exact prevalence is unknown.

Many of the treatment options for PANDAS involve the use of medications. In addition, some may be interested in exploring natural remedies for PANDAS as well.

Perhaps some of the most interesting cases of medical conditions disguised as psychological problems are Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococci (PANDAS), and anti-NMDA encephalitis due to a teratoma.

TIMOTHY WAS 10 years old when his personality changed overnight. A concussion during a family ski trip in December 2016 left him unsteady on his feet, but that was just the first sign something was wrong. The strawberry-blond boy who played on the chess team and looked forward to Mandarin lessons became withdrawn, obsessive, and suicidal. Back home in Marin County, California, he said “bad men” had surrounded his family’s house and were trying to get him.

Carys Fletcher was six years old when, her parents say, the daughter they knew disappeared almost overnight.
A diligent Year One student, Carys had been recovering from a nasty case of strep throat, which turned into scarlet fever. However, she remembers being keen to get back to her primary school on the Sunshine Coast.
Still weak from her illness, Carys was walking across the classroom when she blacked out.

Here [in this study] we examined two adolescents who acutely developed new OCD, neuropsychiatric, and motor dysfunction symptoms consistent with PANS 2 weeks after a diagnosis of COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 needs to be acknowledged in the differential diagnosis of PANS.

Court works to untangle battle of parents, doctors, and the state.

Dr. Mark Korson, a soft-spoken, goateed native of Canada, prided himself on always keeping his cool, even when the highly stressed patients and families around him were losing theirs.

Still, as the chief of metabolism at Tufts Medical Center sat in his cluttered third-floor office in Chinatown last April, his frustration began to boil over. Two months earlier, Korson had sent a 14-year-old patient, Justina Pelletier, to Boston Children’s Hospital to see a former colleague of his who had previously treated the girl for gastrointestinal problems. But things had rapidly gotten off track.

Justina has a metabolic disease. Or does she? Her parents and Children’s Hospital deadlocked, she was placed in state custody.

Just after midnight on a Sunday last February, Linda Pelletier climbed into the passenger seat of an ambulance as her ailing teenage daughter lay in the back. They headed for Boston Children’s Hospital, on the advice of one of the girl’s doctors. A crippling storm had dumped 3 feet of snow on parts of New England, and every time the ambulance began to fishtail, Pelletier gasped.