Children who present with sudden-onset OCD before puberty, sometimes associated with tics, restricted food intake, anxiety, or other behavioral changes, may be suffering from pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) or pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with streptococc...
A sudden onset of tics in a child may be due to an underlying infection-triggered autoimmune response.
"Parents will describe children with PANS as overcome by a 'ferocious' onset of obsessive thoughts, compulsive rituals and overwhelming fears," said Susan Swedo, M.D., of the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), who first characterized PANDAS two decades ago. “Clinicians should...
According to epidemiological data, up to 10% of children have at least somewhere a transient tic disorder. The onset of tics, whether simple or multiple, occurs at approximately 7 years of age. The accepted prevalence figure for GTS is 0.05-3%. Although tics can appear as the result of ...
causing sudden respiratory and cardiac arrests similar to the Hussain dog experiments [55]. This is also consistent with the features of many pediatric deaths in general, including unwitnessed ones like SIDS, given many are unexpected, sudden in onset, and rapid. Death by respiratory arrest would...