Condition Spotlight: PANDAS

P.A.N.D.A.S. is an acronym for a condition named Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders associated with Streptococcal Infections.

What does that really mean?

Basically, folks that get strep throat develop neurological and mental health symptoms.

Kids will get strep, and the strep infection disappears, but the strep bacteria continue to live inside the bodies of those children creating problems. OCD. Mood swings. Sensory abnormalities. Tics. Just to name a few.

The really fascinating part is that these kids don’t show any sign of strep infection, yet the strep is still there reeking havoc.

Wait, how can strep throat do anything to your brain? Doesn’t it just cause a really gnarly sore throat?

The strep bacteria is an ancient bacteria, older than humans. It does something called “biological mimicry”, where it disguises itself inside your body, to evade detection. Antibiotics when given to anybody, will typically kill off 99% of the infection. However, there is always some sort of mutation resistance within the strep bacteria to resist the antibiotics. In a healthy human, your immune system will kill off the remaining 1% that has the antibiotic resistance.

The strep bacteria does biological mimicry, and literally disguises itself by placing proteins similar to the ones found on your own cells, on its outer shell. When your immune system comes around to find it and kill it, it keeps on moving, because it doesn’t recognize it as an invader, and sees it as yourself. Hence the biological mimicry and the ability for the strep to evade detection.

Over time, the strep continues to live in your body, even though you don’t have the appearance of strep throat. There is no sore throat. There is no pus on your tonsils. But the strep is there. Your body can sense an invader. But it can’t find it.

Your immune system’s confusion leads to an autoimmune condition. Your body attacks your own nervous system. In an attempt to eradicate the strep.

Mainstream treatment uses antibiotics, SSRI’s, Anti-inflammatories like NSAIDs and Corticosteroids, Intravenous Immunoglobulin, Plasmapheresis, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, Rituximab, Cellcept, and other Immunomodulatory agents, Anti-virals, Anti-fungals, and Antihistamines. Basically a laundry list of medications.

With this many medications, side effects will happen. Plain and simple.

Homœopathic treatment is not only safer, but more effective. It focuses on the individual symptoms that each person experiences, and then seeks an exact match that exists in nature for the individual. Once that single medicine is found, the magic happens.

And it really is magical.