What's the incidence on siblings?

[matis_mom]

I am wondering how many of us here with multiple children have more than one PANDAS child. Not very good a designing polls, but just wanted to get an idea of how likely it is to have a second, third, etc. child diagnosed in the same family. Sorry to leave those of you with one child out, but I figure for you it would be 1 out of 1 = 100%

If anyone out there feels inclined to design this better, be my guest!

 

On the second question include all those you "higly suspect" have it or are already diagnosed as PANDAS/PITANDS.

 

Isabel

Edited July 17, 2010 by mati's mom

[peglem]

Allie does have an older sister (18yo) who has OCD that she hid from us until she was nearly 18- we saw some stuff earlier, but nothing that couldn't be passed off as quirky behavior of the sibling of a special needs child... But, it really was much worse than we realized. Trying to get a doctor to look at PANDAS at her age is difficult, and I suspect her problems are more from mycoP. I didn't include her on the survey as a PANDAS sib, because she hasn't been dx'd as such, just something I suspect. She's never had a positive strep test and has never had elevated titers- but has had walking pneumonia a couple of times and had an ear infection at 2 1/2 yo, that just would not clear w/ antibiotics- burst eardrum- the whole drama.