another recent PANDAS article

[Guest guest]

Medical Mystery: What explained

second-grader’s sudden panic and obsessions?

By G. Boodman, Published:

September 26

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/medical-mystery-what-explained-second-graders-sudden-panic-and-obsessions/2011/09/06/gIQApqpdzK_story.html

Teague barely had time to react as her son, Will,

lunged for the door of her car full of children, trying to

wrench it open while yelling frantically, “I’ve got to get out!â€

Teague managed to pull to the side of the winding country road

near their Charlottesville home as Will, nearly 8, leapt out of

the car.

“He kept saying, ‘The car smells funny,’ and refused to get

back in,†Teague recalled, astonished that her normally

self-possessed second-grader would fall apart in front of his

little sister and her friends, who stared, goggle-eyed, from the

back seat. When Teague’s efforts at reassurance failed, she

called her husband, who left work. After an hour, Will’s father

managed to coax their son into his car, and they drove home.

That November 2007 episode was the first of Will’s bizarre and

inexplicable meltdowns; it would not be the last....