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Strep & PANDAS

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routineplease · 06/03/2018 12:13

My DD (7) is currently off school with her 5th illness this year. I say 5th because I've been tracking how often the illness appears. It's the same symptoms every time - fever, sore throat, sore tummy & vomiting.
She's had one treatment of penicillin when it was really bad and we've treated the other episodes at home with painkillers and rest. The doctor that we saw diagnosed strep throat and I think it's the same problem that reoccurs every time.
Having read up on reoccurring strep throat I've now discovered that it could be linked to other issues DD has been having.
Namely a tic of her head and unusually a deterioration in her handwriting which has been raised by the school teacher.
From what I've read this could be something called PANDA's.
Does anyone have any knowledge of this?
I'm due to see my gp this afternoon but wondered if I should mention anything about PANDAS?

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shewolfmum · 06/03/2018 22:44

Yes an autoimmune response so i would so everything to boost immune system...good food state vit c...cherry...gut healing...probiotics and fermented food.. some kind of therapy to help with any stress...look at diet cut out anything inflamatory (can be gluten and dairy but not always)...

routineplease · 07/03/2018 09:40

@shewolfmum thanks for this. I think the whole family needs a diet overhaul so this is something I will look into. We've been to the doctors and she's come away with penicillin. Obviously I don't want her to keep using antibiotics.

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