Re: antibiotic recommended for PANDAS/ Virus while on Valtrex?

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What is Pandas?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

PANDAS is an abbreviation for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Associated with Streptococcal Infections. You can get more info from the

web site http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/research/pdn/web.htm

Hope this helps.

Re: antibiotic recommended for PANDAS/ Virus while on Valtrex?

What is Pandas?

[Guest guest]

Hi Barb,

Thanks for the information. I went on PANDAS WEB PAGE today and found out

that they are using penicillin, erythromycin,clarithromycin or azithromycin. I

guess they use an antibiotic that works best for your child.

I remember reading somewhere that they are treating children who have other

bacterial infections as well as strept. Does anyone know anything about this?

Good luck with the Kutapressin therapy, I'll say a prayer for your son.

Re: antibiotic recommended for PANDAS/ Virus while on Valtrex?

Valtrex is supposed to be effective against herpes

viruses, not all viruses. Dr. G uses erythromycin for

pandas. For my 12 yo who is 6, he had him on 333 tabs

, 3x per day for a month, then switched to 2x per day.

He has been on this since January. The aso titers

thus far have not improved, and he put him back up to

3x per day. He started kutapressin a week ago, so

we are hoping he responds well to all txs, in general

now. Barb

--- Anagnostakos <lsa588522@...> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I'm trying to find out what antibiotic therapy

> Dr. G recommends using long term to treat PANDAS? I

> thought that NIH uses PCN but after reading one of

> DR. G's posts he doesn't recommend using PCN or

> Biaxin. Is anyone aware of what he does use?

> I have another question, my son is just now

> getting over either a casackie virus or more than

> likely mono.. His glands behind his ears and up the

> back of his head were very swollen as were the

> glands in his neck. Our ped. felt that because of

> his age (4 yrs. old) it probably is a casackie

> virus, but his symptoms looked exactly like mono..

> After a week and a half he is finally feeling a

> little better. My question is why did my son get

> this virus while on Valtrex? Has anyone else

> experienced this before? Thanks!

>

>

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