PANDAS & PANS: Returning Lost Children | Scott Antoine DO and Dr. Achina Stein

My biggest peeve with the medical system is that patients with mental health symptoms are not given a complete medical work-up nor are their physical symptoms even discussed. Some people suffer for years before a curious provider takes the time to ask more questions to get to the root causes of what the person is experiencing. Some people are inappropriately given psychiatric medication as the sole solution for a very real whole-body experience. The DSM-5 clearly states that a psychiatric diagnosis should not be given if the symptoms can be explained by a medical cause, but that is dependent on the individual practitioner’s knowledge base!

I’m here to give you that knowledge to empower you to be your own advocate.

I interviewed Dr. Scott Antoine about Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).

His own daughter developed PANS in 2013. He and his wife Ellen, also a Functional and Integrative Medicine physician, were met with a lot of resistance to evaluate their daughter’s symptoms beyond the psychiatric realm. They hit the books and learned how to shut off her immune response, treat the infections and toxins responsible for her PANS presentation and bring her to full recovery. After his daughter recovered from PANS, Dr. Antoine knew his specialty had found him.

Since then, they refined their process and have helped hundreds of children recover from PANS and PANDAS. In 2019, Dr. Antoine successfully lobbied the Indiana legislature and helped pass a law which prohibits insurance companies in Indiana from denying coverage for medical care (including IVIG) for children with PANS and PANDAS.

Learn:  What PANS/PANDAS is - autoimmune disease, immune dysregulation or immune deficient?  How to diagnose and treat PANS and PANDAS  Which supplements can ease some of the symptoms  ONE major contributor in the patient’s history in almost 100% of cases

Dr. Scott Antoine obtained his medical degree at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an Emergency Medicine Residency and Fellowship at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Then he served seven years of active duty with the United States Army as an Emergency Physician. Moving to Indianapolis in 2005, he worked as an Emergency Physician at St. Francis Hospital until 2019. He received his board certification in Integrative Medicine through the newly formed American Board of Integrative Medicine in 2016. He also holds certifications in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine and the A4M.

You can find him and Ellen at their private practice in Carmel, Indiana. The website is https://fullyfunctional.com/He and Ellen are also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealingPANSandPANDASInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepandasdocs/