When a PANDA isn't a PANDA

I’ve been treating an 11 year old boy these past few months who was exhibiting signs of PANDAS. This stands for Paediatric Auto-immune Neuro-pyschiatric Disease Associated with Streptococcus infection - it’s basically a chronic bacterial infection that causes mental symptoms like obsessive behaviours, tics, irrational fears etc. The symptoms can last for years & be totally debilitating.

Years before, at around 2 years old, he’d had a major regression in behaviours after suspected vaccine damage. His eye contact had gone, his speech had declined, he began spacing out & lots of gastrointestinal problems began (projectile vomiting, constant diarrhea. Diet changes along with supplementation had a great effect on these symptoms over time. By 8 years old the only remaining symptoms were some attention issues. However his father reported that he ensured a very strict diet regime as a precaution against these symptoms returning.

The boys behaviour had suddenly changed at 10 years old. He’d gone from a loving, compliant boy & turned into a bit of a demon! He had Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (constantly washing his hands), extreme aggressive behaviour, poor appetite, a sallow appearance & sunken cheeks, spitting, cursing and confessing to having bad thoughts. He couldn’t stand to be in his father’s company & was constantly fighting with him. He also tested positive for Streptococcus bacteria & Cox-Sackie virus. Lots of interventions ensued - IVIG 3 times, lots of antibiotics, antivirals, 5 days of prednisone, Zoloft. All to no avail.

The dad suspected PANDAS, and came to me because of my reputation treating this condition.

I wasn’t convinced, from the beginning I suspected that the dynamics in the family were what was causing the son’s behaviour. I dutifully started treated the son, but insisted on remedies for the mother & father as well, as I believed the son’s behaviour was simply a reaction to his father's controlling way. A few prescriptions later & we were no further forward. Finally the son had went to Central America with his mother over the summer, leaving his dad behind. NOW I could work on him!

The father reported being small for his age at school & was subjected to bullying. Because of this he became interested in weight training & martial arts. He still continues these interests today, taking part in mixed martial arts tournaments and extreme fitness challenges with the special forces. He also frequented prostitutes on a regular basis, but had problems being intimate with his wife. THIS was the key to the case, I felt. The father’s inadequacies had followed him into adulthood. He was trying to be assertive & controlling within the family, but felt inadequate, not respected & powerless (any homeopaths in the audience will be shouting out the remedy by now!).

I gave the father a remedy called Lycopodium & waited.

Result: the father became MUCH more relaxed & comfortable in his skin & ALL the son’s symptoms miraculously disappeared!

No symptoms remain, their relationship is back to being loving. The dad is much less obsessive & controlling with the son’s diet.

A few little sugar balls had resolved what the might of pharmaceutical medicine failed to do.
Homeopathy can truly be described as: Magic of the minimum dose!