Reply to The "New" Strep Throat

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "The "New" Strep Throat"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]strep in kids can lead to a serious syndrome called PANDS that manifests with sudden onset of OCD symptoms.

I just had a terrible stomach ache for 3 days.  No diarrhea, no vomiting (though thought I might at one point).  Maybe that was whatever strep thing is going around?  I am better now.  Didn't see the doctor.[/quote]

Strep can lead to rheumatic fever, Sydenham's chorea, PANDAS, glomerulonephritis (a kidney disorder), and types of systemic vasculitis. It is suspected as a cause of other disorders--for example, it has been implicated in narcolepsy.

Having a child with PANDAS (his strep has often been asympotomatic, testing positive when his sympotmatic sibling does), they cannot develop a strep vaccine quick enough for me.[/quote]

I also have a child with PANDAS. When he was younger, he used to get a stomach ache, fever, and sore throat with strep. The past couple years he only gets a dramatic increase in tics and a bad headache when he has strep.

Strep is not something that can be left to resolve on it's own. It is a bacterial infection, and antibiotics are necessary to avoid serious complications. [/quote]

Tics, OCD etc tend to develop two or more weeks after the strep begins.  We too have had times where we noticed the sudden huge increase in hand washing, etc and haul him to the pediatrician.  Kind of too bad--I wonder sometimes iwhether if we could catch it earlier we'd limit the PANDAS sequelae.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics