Why is PANDAS controversial?
PANDAS is a new disease (< 12 years old) and there\'s a lot not known about the disease. The primary controversy is really from researchers who think GABHS is too common an infection to treat as causal for PANDAS. They think it is likely coincidence. In reading studies, most of the criticism come from researchers studying children with Tourette\'s Syndrome. Unfortunately, by the time a child has had Tourette\'s Syndrome, they typically have had motor and vocal tics for more than 1 year with no remission for > 3 months. This means that most researchers pulling subjects who have Tourette\’s are not studying the rapid onset of symptoms (i.e., what most parents coming here are struggling with). Most of the controversy surrounding PANDAS comes from a particular group of researchers who have not been able to replicate other researcher experiments. We hope they all get together soon and compare notes and methods. A second source of controversy comes from researchers who think that antibiotics
