New- Saving Sammy: Curing the boy who caught OCD

[Guest guest]

I recently read the book Saving Sammy: The boy who caught OCD. I thought it was

excellent and it will hopefully save many children.

It was surprising to me that the boy was treated with Augmentin XR based on the

rise and fall of the strep antibodies rather than testing for an active strep

infection. The antibiotics were used for their possible anti-inflammatory

effects rather than anti-bacterial.

The author, Beth Alison Maloney has a website at

www.savingsammy.net

Watch the videos there from TODAY show and other interviews.

Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Beth-Alison-Maloney/233696275037?ref=nf

[Guest guest]

I had the pleasure of meeting Beth, the author last night at a book reading for

" Saving Sammy " last night here in Maine. Sammy had no symptoms of a strep

infection ever, but it was in his body. Also, strep antibodies need to only be

over 100 to be a possible strep infection, or the presence of antibodies long

after an infection, for a positive PANDAS diagnosis. A simple dose of anti

biotics was not enough. Sammy was on the powerful anti-biotic Augmentin for one

year at 2000 mg strength and 3 more years at 1000 mg. The anti biotic is a more

powerful form of penicillin with an additive.

This book is amazing. You'll laugh and cry right with Beth. She'll give you

the tools to show your doctor why this is a very important treatment to

consider. Doctors often hesitate to give one course of anti-biotics. When they

would treat rheumatic fever, the course of anti-biotics was years as well, to

fully remove the anti bodies from attacking the heart. Those are strep anti

bodies too. The diagnosis which was the cause of Sammy's OCD and Tourette's was

a disease called PANDAS. You can read what other mothers say helped their

children at www.latitudes.org, clicking on forums, then Choosing PANDAS. Sammy's

original pediatrician tried to cure him with Zoloft, increasing the dose over

and over again. This almost killed him. He didn't need to be happier, he needed

to strep to stop attacking his basel ganglia in his brain.

Amazon.com has great prices on this book. We have our doctors appointment all

ready. At Beth's Facebook page,she's listing PANDAS receptive doctors in each

state. Sixteen so far. You can go there from www.savingsammy.net Look at all the

interviews, you'll be amazed. We as mom's need to remind doctors often that WE

know our children best, and if they are not doing better, we need to find a

doctor that will help them.

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> I recently read the book Saving Sammy: The boy who caught OCD. I thought it

was excellent and it will hopefully save many children.

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> It was surprising to me that the boy was treated with Augmentin XR based on

the rise and fall of the strep antibodies rather than testing for an active

strep infection. The antibiotics were used for their possible anti-inflammatory

effects rather than anti-bacterial.

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> The author, Beth Alison Maloney has a website at

> www.savingsammy.net

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> Watch the videos there from TODAY show and other interviews.

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> Facebook page:

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http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Beth-Alison-Maloney/233696275037?ref=nf

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