Top 10 Laboratory Tests for PANS, PANDAS and AE

When your child exhibits symptoms such as irritability, aggression, OCD, Tics, eating restrictions or urinary accidents all we want to do as parents is help them feel better and smile again. Our parental 'red flags' go up and alarm bells go off, when these symptoms happen abruptly and we are experiencing a child who is unrecognizable from the child we have been raising days, weeks or months before. These symptoms can point to a collection of conditions called PANS, PANDAS and Autoimmune Encephalitis or brains on fire for our loved one.  PANDAS stands for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and PANS stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. Autoimmune Encephalitis is abbreviated AE

In this ebook we help a parents take into account the underlying biochemistry of the body and laboratory tests which may give clues as to why our child is feeling and acting the way they are. This book will empower parents to partner with their child's physician to look deeper into the root causes of their child's challenges, leading them to actionable steps they can make to improve their child's quality of life and their own. 

Kristi Wees is a chemist and a medical advocate who takes the seemingly complicated world of laboratory blood testing for a grouping of conditions called PANS, PANDAS and Autoimmune Encephalitis and describes these tests in a way that parents can understand, giving them the information they need to have an educated conversation with their child's pediatrician.