Tag: pans
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Chronically ill child healed with diet of raw food
HFI. Food is medicine.Who hasn’t seen or heard Hippocrates’ famous quote about letting food be your medicine and your medicine your food? Dominic’s story is proof again that foods can the ultimate source of healing. Our seemingly perfect child went to bed and woke up the following day with dilated pupils, ticcing so bad that…
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What You Should Know If You’ve Ever Wondered If Your Child Had PANDAS or PANS (Even If Your Doctor Ruled It Out)
SUDDEN ONSET of symptoms that present as OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorder, conduct disorder, anorexia could be labeled PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep Infections) is a subset of PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome).Yes, PANDAS is a controversial. Remember hand washing was a critical piece of preventing…
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PANDAS: A Scary and Controversial Disorder
Could a sudden, severe change in a child’s behavior be brought on by something as common as strep throat? Many experts — and distraught parents — say yes. We dig deeper to find out what’s going on, and which children are at risk. PANDAS syndrome sometimes referred to as PANDAS disease is an acronym for…