Health Articles Update

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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. 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. (more…)