10-year-old child started pulling the hair on the head and threatening to commit suicide. The psychosis was an amazing adverse reaction to infected with strep throat.
The little canadian Connor Entropa everything started with hair. One day last winter when the boy was only ten and a half years, his mother Cory found that her son pulls hair from her head in bunches. After a while he began to do the same with the hair of the beloved family dog. Over time, the behavior Connor became more and more irrational, he had panic attacks and developed a full psychosis, accompanied by real suicidal thoughts, which is incredibly rare in children of similar age. The frightened mother had no idea about what’s going on with her child.
Just to answer this question failed and the doctors. A few months continued the survey was done in various analyses, interviews were conducted with psychiatrists, and only then one of the doctors asked, do not hurt the boy before the emergence of such strange symptoms. Cory said that her child was strong enough strep throat infection. Finally, doctors performed tests that showed that the strep and the sore throat caused the development of severe psychosis in a child.
It turned out that his immune system reacted to the virus in a strange way, starting attack its own body. This led to inflammation of the brain and a rare immune reaction long name pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with Streptococcus. After installation of a correct diagnosis of the child was subjected to intensive and prolonged treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics, which returned to normal the boy to his parents. (READ MORE)