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Have a friend with a PANDAS child. Really hard to even hear about. Total personality change, constant battles, even when it gets better the fear of reoccurrence
by iandanforth 3y ago
Have a friend with a PANDAS child. Really hard to even hear about. Total personality change, constant battles, even when it gets better the fear of reoccurrence. Truly awful.
- tetris11 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANDAS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANDAS > Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) is a controversial hypothetical diagnosis for a subset of children with rapid onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders. > The proposed link between infection and these disorders is that an autoimmune reaction to infection produces antibodies that interfere with basal ganglia function, causing symptom exacerbations, and this autoimmune response results in a broad range of neuropsychiatric symptoms.
- Gibbon1 3y agoWhen you consider that chronic and acute autoimmune disease is totally a thing. For instance Hashimoto's disease where the immune system attacks the thyroid is chronic progressing. Thyroiditis, is acute and resolves. It would seem the burden of proof is on those that say the brain isn't subject to autoimmune disorders. Because everything else is.
- harry8 3y ago>It would seem the burden of proof Or maybe we could reserve judgement about all possibilities that cannot be ruled out until more evidence comes in?