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Is PANDAS Really Vaccine Injury?

January 25, 2012 By Norma 2 Comments

By Marcella, VaxTruth

LeRoy NY
Mystery Illness?

With all the coverage of The Le Roy Twelve in the last 10 days, one thing has been a positive… at least from the standpoint of many in the “autism” community.

There has been greatly increased attention to PANDAS – Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus.

PANDAS is what happens when a child’s immune system does not respond appropriately to a strep infection. Years ago when I first learned about PANDAS, it was believed that strep was the single causal bacterial infection responsible for triggering the attack on the basal ganglia and the anterior cingulate gyrus. When I moved to Evansville from D.C. and began working with a Mayo-trained psychiatrist who is arguably the best in his field, at least in this part of the midwest, he had never heard of PANDAS… it was too new.  At my suggestion we began doing blood tests (ASO, Anti-DNAse) to detect for strep antibodies that were outside of the normal range. We frequently found evidence of chronic strep infections in several of our teenaged patients who had previously been diagnosed and treated for everything from ADHD and Autism to Tourette’s Disorder, OCD, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.  We also had many patients whose strep levels came back negative. At the time, it was our understanding (based on the research in 2002-2005) that if blood tests were negative, it probably wasn’t PANDAS.

Thankfully, the research has continued to advance since the first five years of the 21st century. There is currently a much greater understanding about how many different bacterial and viral infections can attack the parts of the brain that are responsible for movement control, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and the extreme emotional and behavioral ups and downs exhibited by children whose brains are infected and inflamed. Because it is now known that multiple infectious agents are involved in the clinical presentation of an autoimmune brain attack, we no longer refer to the syndrome as just “PANDAS.” Instead this group of neuro-immune disorders is now referred to as PANDAS/PITAND/PANS.  For those who would like to learn more about this group of sudden onset disorders, this is an excellent article.

As you may recall, in my first sentence of this post I stated that the increased awareness of PANDAS as a result of what is going on in Le Roy, New York comes as a relief to many in the “autism” community.  That’s because PANDAS/PITAND/PANS is not rare among our children.  In 2007, when I attended my last Defeat Autism Now conference, it was estimated that PANDAS (just the form associated with strep) affected more than 30% of children diagnosed with autism.  Even with that knowledge, many parents have had an extremely difficult time obtaining appropriate diagnosis and treatment for their children. Pediatricians and General Practice doctors who are not familiar with the latest research into the many medical conditions that cause “autism” symptoms often flat-out refuse to even do a strep test on a child with “autism” because the knowledge of PANDAS is relatively new and treatment is deemed “experimental.” This has resulted in many tragic and unnecessary deaths of children on the spectrum, simply because their doctors refused to consider that there might be something about “autism” they were not taught in medical school.

Read the entire article here.

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Filed Under: Autism, Immune System, Nervous System, United States Tagged With: 12 girls, autism, autoimmune disorders, LeRoy, PANDAS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus, vaccine injury

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  1. Terri Van says

    February 3, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    Ever since my husband was diagnosed with HPV related tonsil cancer I have wondered about a possible connection between certain strains of HPV found in the throat and Autism and ADHD. There has been such significant increases in HPV (do not forget the huge rise in male throat cancers based on HPV) , ADHD and Autism simultaneously. If PANDAS, which may well be related to Autism, is caused by strep and it’s effect on the immune system, then it seems worth researching the HPV tonsil based parent bacteria and it’s long term drain on the hosts immune system. Emory Hospitals oncologist and radiologist stated that, at this point, they can not say 100%where a person is getting HPV in their throats. My husbands Oncologist stated that he believes it can come from many other contacts than just sexual. Can a parent pass these strains on to their infant by breast feeding if the bacteria has traveled from the throat to the breast? If HPV is not just a sexual transmitted disease, as the doctors at Emory Winship Cancer Treatment stated to us, it seems that it could be passed on to a infant somehow. If it can slowly affect the tonsil it just seems that there must be some relationship. Every time I look to see if there is research being done with the new effect of HPV on the tonsil/throat and Autism I only see arguments about whether the vaccine (Guardasil) is at fault. I am asking for more research to be done about the strains themselves NOT the vaccine. My gut tells me infants are fighting HPV unknowingly and if their immune systems are not strong enough at that particular time, then they are in danger other developmental issues. HPV, PANDAS, and AUTISM… is research being done to find any relation?

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  1. LeRoy teenage neurological illness mystery–junk science everywhere says:
    February 10, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    […] Is PANDAS Really Vaccine Injury?  This was posted in “Sane Vax”, an anti-vaccination website which mostly discussed the PANDAS diagnosis discussed above.  The problem with the article is that although the title says “vaccine injury”, the article mentioned nothing further.  I think they just tend to throw “vaccine” against every mysterious medical issue, just to make sure it links on google (no, I have no evidence, but the article didn’t make sense in light of the title). […]

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