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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that most PANDAS cases are mild and pretty garden variety but peds either don't know how or refuse to treat.  These mild cases could be cleared up with six weeks of antibiotics rather than the two weeks most peds are willing to give.

And because the peds won't do that in most cases, people are left with the Dr, Latimers, who should be handling just the really tough cases.

It is amazing to me that there are people out there who argue against the extra month of antibiotics and believe it's better to put the child on SSRIs or heavier duty drugs and have them wait for four to six months to be able to get into an opening at a CBT place and once you are in to schlep them back and forth from there twice a week and do homework that requires the parent to confront their child with what he fears most.  [/quote]

Well, I can only assume that if there were a solid evidence base for six weeks of antibiotics, then more pediatricians would be open to prescribing it.  As it is, it seems like it's not a fully accepted course of treatment or theory, so that's why pediatricians won't prescribe it.  Antibiotics have their own set of risks!  [/quote]

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