And they wonder why parents go searching for answers themselves. Trust the doctor, they said. Medicate your child, they said. Jonah was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety and sensory processing disorder. He was prescribed Prozac. But it made little difference, and Kerry had a deep sense something else was at the root. “I’d lay there at night and I’d cry,” she said. “We were just being bounced from one doctor to another.” While mining the Internet about Prozac a blogger suggested Jonah’s problem could be a little understood autoimmune condition called PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus.) The blogger had a child diagnosed with PANDAS, which develops in susceptible children who have a common strep infection. In some cases, the body mistakenly attacks the basil ganglia, the part of the brain that controls emotion and body movement. Kerry remembers feeling excited because Jonah’s symptoms fit PANDAS perfectly. But she could not convince a doctor it might be true. Finally, 18 months after Jonah became ill, the Henriksons found a doctor in Chatham-Kent willing to prescribe the antibiotics that PANDAS responds to. In three days they had their son back. thesarniajournal.ca/diagnosing-jonah-city-boys-psychiatric-disorder-traced-common-strep-infection/
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