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PANDAS is an acronym for a sudden onset mental disorder in children, which develops after an acute strep infection. Children may develop sudden onset obsessions, compulsions, OCD, anxiety, lability, motor or vocal tics, enuresis, deterioration in handwriting, etc. It is reasonable to believe adults can also get acute strep, and similarly develop PANDAS, although little research has been done on adults with problem behaviors or a mental health diagnosis. Strep has as many as 75 variants, some more virulent than…..
Medical science is being unfair to patients, when stress, depression, a mental disorder, autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, or something unique about the patient, is given as the reason for the patient’s illness—until infectious/parasitic origins of the disease to which these assumptions are applied are ruled out. These assumptions were applied to ulcers for decades, and patients with ulcers suffered unnecessary pain, self-blame, and death before the assumptions were proved wrong—ulcers are an infection caused by a bacteria (h-pylori) which could…..
We are not alone in our concern for the development of future chronic diseases, in covid-19 patients. Our perspective is the person’s underlying chronic intracellular infections, and the length of time the infection has persisted and spread in the body, can impact the effect of acute covid19. The vaccine hesitant may fear getting covid19 vaccinations, but their fear of the vaccine should pale in comparison to the fear of developing a chronic disease and/or mental illness; and/or a shortened life…..
Pfizer halted the sale of Chantix, a smoking cessation drug approved by the FDA in 2006, due high levels of carcinogens found in some of the pills. Chantix is also number one on the list of the “violent five”—the top five most violence inducing drugs. Chantix was reported in 2015 to be 18 times more likely to result in violence toward self and others. Violence toward self and others is a significantly under-reported adverse drug event. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953780?src= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49703495_Prescription_Drugs_Associated_with_Reports_of_Violence_Towards_Others https://www.cchrflorida.org/top-five-psychiatric-drugs-linked-to-violence
Mental illness is “associated” with worse covid19 outcomes, including death. Mortality was also higher in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders compared to mood disorders. Bacterial, viral, and parasitic illnesses have been found in patients with schizophrenia and other mood disorders, including depression—but few (if any) studies have attempted treatment of mental illness by treating the underlying infections. The statement covid19 is more severe in patients with mental illness is consistent with the statement mental illness is a medical illness. Patients…..
In “The Autoimmune Brain”, David Younger, MD, discusses inflammatory brain disease caused by inflammation the body generates to fight pathogens. In “Chronic”, Phillips and Parish discuss autoimmune disease and state inflammation has always had its roots in infection. (p. 115). In “The Origin of Disease” we discuss a myriad of chronic diseases arising from infectious pathogens and the inflammatory processes the immune system generates to fight the pathogens. In “Drop the Disorder”, Jo Watson questions the scientific validity of psychiatric…..
We have said many times in our book and in our posts—mental illness is a medical illness! Infectious pathogens are known to cause mental illness and cognitive decline. Acute illness can hasten cognitive decline. Many believe streptococcus causes PANS, PANDA, and autoimmune disorders. Toxoplasmosis is dismissed by medical professionals as self-limiting and of no significance; yet, toxoplasmosis is known to cause mental health and autoimmune disorders. Influenza during pregnancy and toxoplasmosis are known to cause mental illness in the fetus…..
More and more, scientists are starting to accept infectious causes of chronic disease. The article supports that mental illness can be a medical illness! Bartonella may be one cause of mental illness, or work in tandem with other immortal pathogens attacking endothelium–but is not likely the only infectious cause of mental illness. For instance, toxoplasmosis can cause mental illness, and both Batonella and toxoplasmosis are transmitted by cats. Patients with mental illness deserve a greater emphasis on medical illness…..
“Mental illness is a medical illness!” Two articles reported chlamydia pathogens increase the risk of mental illness; and the second article reported the “connection” between schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and Tourette’s syndrome. We also previously posted a New York Times article (2/15/19) showing schizophrenia was transmissible and treatable. Medical causes of mental illness, including those caused by chlamydia pneumonia, trachoma, and psittacosis, should be diagnosed and treated, in the routine care of patients with chronic disease. “High risk of schizophrenia…..
Toxoplasmosis is a caused by a parasite, which lives in the host as long as the host lives. Cats are the only known animal reservoir for toxoplasmosis. Most cats are infected early in life, and are most infectious in the weeks following acute infection. Transmission to humans is by ingestion or inhalation of microscopic particles of infected feces; and toxoplasmosis can cross the placenta to infect a fetus. Toxoplasmosis has been ignored in chronic disease, and believed to be a…..
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