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These illnesses have limited research on treatments. There is never one treatment, since these have large clusters of complex signs and symptoms that I have found never have a single cause. Plasmapheresis keeps your child’s red blood cells, but it does clean the watery plasma of the blood. We believe it lowers autoimmune antibodies, some inflammatory […]

TOPIC Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus (PANDAS) describe a subset of childhood obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) and tic disorders triggered by group-A ß-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes (GABHS) infection. PANDAS Diagnostic Criteria The presence of OCD or a tic disorder or both Pediatric onset Episodic course of symptom severity with abrupt onset or dramatic symptom exacerbations Temporal association with

**Before we quote this paper below please note that criteria for PANS and PANDAS are useful but not each child fits these criteria exactly. The authors write: :There is only one published randomized, double-blind, placebo–control study that has examined the use of antibiotic therapy in youth satisfying PANDAS/ PANS criteria (32). [And hundreds of clinicians have used

Copyright 2026 James Schaller on all Unchanged-Free Use Bilirubin test: Bilirubin is a byproduct of red blood cell breakdown in the liver. .1 Hemoglobin test: 1 Liver function test: 1 Reticulocyte count test: These are immature red blood cells. 1 Is the body trying to replace the broken lysed red cells?. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) test: this measures cell