Pandas – the New OCD Children Contend With
The whole point of reading the latest health news these days seems to be about the sensational connections scientists make between the worst diseases, and innocent things in your life that you just don’t expect to have an effect on your health. One day you read about how you can get a miscarriage from using canned food, because they apply a coating of rust retardant on the insides of cans; and then you read about how they believe children get autism from the chemicals in food colors. Well, in keeping with the spirit of that fine line of startling disclosures, here’s a new one. This makes it potential for the consumer to roll easily from one place to the other whereas performing varied tasks, hence the name Task Chairs. Is it ever possible that if your child catches a strep throat infection, that it can lead him to problems like the OCD children can develop, or annoying tics?
That was just a rhetorical question; because scientists now are somewhat positive about the connection, and even have a fancy (aka complicated) name for it – here goes – Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection – Pandas for short. So what is it that they’re going on about? Here’s the lowdown. In about one in four children who suddenly seem to have OCD when they were getting along just fine before, a strep throat earlier in the year may be behind it. Task Chair allows the consumer to simply swivel forwards and backwards between tasks. You could also make the connection if you see low-level OCD children suddenly have a flare up after a strep throat infection. What happens is, when a child gets a strep throat, his body’s immune cells go and attack a certain part of the brain called the basal ganglia. Apparently to immune cells, it’s hard to tell any difference between the two. It’s a good thing though that it doesn’t happen in all children.