Posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 12:32:31
For the last few years, my son has been battling various problems including depression, OCD, anxiety, and ADD. He is doing a lot better, but I noticed something that I always thought was my imagination and recently read a NAMI newsletter that intrigued me. There were times that my son was ill that he looked so awful and sick, that he would take 10 days of antibiotics. We always found that he got better, his symptoms greatly decreased, his energy increased, and his meds worked better. I had asked psychiatrists if there
was somehow a relationship between some type of brain symptoms and antibiotics and was always told that there wasn't or if there was, it was only that the antibiotics increased the zoloft level.
Yesterday, in the NAMI newsletter, there was an article about children and an autoimmune disorder caused by a low level strep infection. I found thais totally fascinating and would like to know if anyone else has noticed a connection betweem antibiotics and "brain symptoms".
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thread:101798
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