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One morning, 8-year-old Holland woke up with extreme anxieties, headache and abdominal pain. The previously healthy girl from Scottsdale, Ariz., also had food aversions and light sensitivities, said her mother, Karen Blandini.
For the next two years, the family hunted for a diagnosis and effective treatment, Blandini said. After Holland could no longer talk or get out of bed, she arrived at the Children’s Postinfectious Autoimmune Encephalopathy Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center where she was diagnosed with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS).[/blockquote]
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