Posted by Bill82 on February 11, 2015, at 21:45:09
In reply to Re: Desperate - 9yo anger/aggression/outbursts, posted by ed_uk2010 on February 11, 2015, at 20:11:32
Rage and aggression in a waxing and waning manner has been known to be caused by certain bacterial infections. Problem is they are very hard to test for as the tests are inaccurate, and the medical field is split upon wether or not they are the cause, one side being trigger happy in prescribing antibiotics the others saying it's bad medicine. Bartonella hensalae has been said to possibly cause what it called bartonella rage, that comes and goes. It can often be co infected with other things, such as lyme(borellia) babesiosis( a protozoan) and mycoplasma strains. I am in the middle on this issue as I think the "lyme literate" doctors are too biased that these things cause everything, but at the same time it is usually an environmental cause if people suddenly chane and do not gradually develop symptoms. Did she get sick at all before all this began? Other types of pediatric psych symptoms can prevent overnight from certain infections, look up PANDAS for more info. It commonly is onset after an infection and waxes and wanes with the course of being exposed to the virus(common one is strep) symptoms include ocd, Tourette's like symptoms, food obsessions, declines in handwriting ability drawing etc, rages. Course of treatment is to try a course of antibiotics for a month or so, can often cause dramtic results. Blood titters for common infections can also be drawn in terms of igg levels present, however these can at times be inaccurate. Was the walking on leg possibly an anxiety based fear of some consequence? Or was it because it hurt. Anyways just some thoughts
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