MountainMom Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Hi, My doctor recommended prophylactic antibiotics for my DS with PANS. I'm trying to understand why it would be important to treat prophylacticly with antibiotics when strep isn't the culprit and we've irradiated current infections. Any thoughts? Thanks for your wisdom, as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCMom Posted November 6, 2017 Report Share Posted November 6, 2017 A couple of thoughts: 1. Antiobiotics treat more than just strep, so prophylactically will protect from other infections that could be triggers. 2. Those of us who have treated prophylatically, have also found anecdotally that the antibiotics seem to have a secondary effect of reducing inflammation. MountainMom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MountainMom Posted November 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2017 NYCMom, thank you. I didn't know that people were finding that the antibiotics helped with inflammation. I appreciate your response! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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