I woul look carefully to the pills that was subscribed to that infection.
Are you thinking of antibiotics affecting the gut or about something else?
Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
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Re: Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
#12This is sad: "years spent campaigning to get doctors to take the illnesses seriously." It's like that saying, "Capitalism: The worst economic system, except for all the others". Our medical system where we rely on individual doctors for primary care is really flawed but it's better than any alternatives that we have (or that we can afford anyway)
> Our medical system where we rely on individual doctors for primary care is really flawed but it's better than any alternatives that we have (or that we can afford anyway) The US one I presume? Says who? Based on what metric? We can, and other countries have, do much better. That this parent "is “exhausted” by years spent campaigning to get doctors to take the illnesses seriously" doesn't say much. It's not like she…
which countries have a different system than individual doctors for primary care, and how is it better?
Re: Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
#13Nothing that a good vaccine cannot fix.
Re: Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
#14I remember feeling pretty normal until I had a strep throat infection when I was 7, after which I got really introverted and twitchy/compulsive ever since. Maybe a coincidence but I sometimes wonder if that did something to me. edit: I swear I made this comment this before reading the article. It starts off with a boy at 7 with strep that got twitchy, which is 100% in line with my experience. Crazy.
I had strep as a child and I developed tics and compulsive speech. Also some OCD. I'm almost 40 and I still have the compulsive speech. When I have awkward thoughts, I start cursing under my breath.
Another kid in my class has strep, and he has OCD so bad, that some days he can't leave the house.
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#15I wonder if these findings may partially explain the often derided theory that childhood vaccines can cause autism. The article directly mentions that an autism misdiagnosis can result from psychiatric symptoms resulting from an autoimmune response after certain infections.
This opens up a can of worms since now the question is can a pregnant mom pass this down to an unborn child.
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#16> Dr Pittenger says it is now clear that covid-19 infections can trigger psychosis, fatigue and other neuro-psychiatric symptoms. A misbehaving immune system is thought to be the culprit. The idea that schizophrenia may, at least sometimes, likewise be an auto-immune disorder is also under investigation.
Until I got long covid(generally recovered now after 2 years), I couldn't comprehend this idea. I felt like I was actually going crazy. But then that lead me down a rabbit hole of reading about things like the microbiome and immune system which is a whole new domain yet to be formally explored. I highly recommend people read Ed Yong's book "I Contain Multitudes".
Post acute infection syndromes are a real thing and it is fascinating that we get to see science take on this topic in the spotlight right now. Especially Jeff Gordon and his work on the microbiome and Akiko Iwasaki and her work on long covid.
It makes you honestly question the idea of freewill. Good thing that Robert Sapolsky's new book is coming out next month on the topic!
Re: Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
#17I woul look carefully to the pills that was subscribed to that infection.
Are you thinking of antibiotics affecting the gut or about something else?
Seems like both the infection and the antibiotics could have an effect. You can't really count either out until further studies are performed.
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#18Have a friend with a PANDAS child. Really hard to even hear about. Total personality change, constant battles, even when it gets better the fear of reoccurrence. Truly awful.
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#19Nothing that a good vaccine cannot fix.
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#20I wonder if these findings may partially explain the often derided theory that childhood vaccines can cause autism. The article directly mentions that an autism misdiagnosis can result from psychiatric symptoms resulting from an autoimmune response after certain infections.
I see your text is fading.
Um sir, take your crack pot theories out of this post which provides evidence of a different previous crack pot theory.
Science has no room for folks who don't preach the dogma.