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ATTENTION PARENTS WITH KIDS EXPERIENCING BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS. Here is something you probably will not hear from your pediatrician or child psychologist - infections can cause behavioral issues, violent attitudes and aggressiveness. The study below highlights information provided by a Lyme-literate psychiatrist from New Jersey. Once this study was published, another New Jersey psychiatrist, Rosalie Greenberg, MD, who treats children had this to say:
"Dear editor
I read with great interest the article by Bransfield, wherein the author reviewed potential contributors to and manifestations of heightened loss of control in Lyme
disease patients. As a child psychiatrist living in a Lyme-endemic state, New Jersey, in the USA, I have seen a number of children and adolescents who exhibit significant acute or gradual onset of highly oppositional behaviors often both at home and at school. Refusal to do classwork or homework, heightened paranoia or feeling
rejected by others is often present. In addition, they often demonstrate increased irritability, extreme temper tantrums, problems concentrating, elevated impulsivity, sensory hypersensitivity (sound, touch, smell, taste and/or light) and intense emotional lability. Parents describe these behaviors as either a sudden change or a period of worsening of a previous condition, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or mood disorder. During periods of intense anger over minimal issues, they can appear menacing and threaten to kill a sibling, parent or a friend or state that they want to die themselves. In a recent record review of 69 youth evaluated in my private
psychopharmacology practice, 49 of these new patients, without a known history of Lyme disease or other tick-borne disorders, demonstrated evidence of exposure to one or more of the pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia and Anaplasma on serologic testing performed by multiple laboratories. In addition, 6 of
the 69 patients were initially referred because of psychiatric difficulties observed by other physicians during the active treatment of tick-borne infections. Supporting this connection of childhood neuropsychiatric symptoms and tick-borne illness is a recent article looking at 27 youth diagnosed with bipolar disorder I or II, which found that
74% or 20/27 were diagnosed with at least one tick-borne illness based on serologic testing and clinician evaluation.2
Of note, bipolar disorder is a psychiatric illness that
carries a high risk of suicide. There appears to be no question that exploration of the association of Lyme disease and tick-borne illnesses with neuropsychiatric symptoms both in children and adults requires more extensive study."
Please consider that your child's change in behavior may be caused by an underlying infection. You will need to take your child to a specialist who understands tick-borne diseases. Contact us if you need a reference - delmarvalyme@yahoo.com
https://www.dovepress.com/aggressiveness-violence-homicidal…
ATTENTION PARENTS WITH KIDS EXPERIENCING BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS. Here is something you probably will not hear from your pediatrician or child psychologist - infections can cause behavioral issues, violent attitudes and aggressiveness. The study below highlights information provided by a Lyme-literate psychiatrist from New Jersey. Once this study was published, another New Jersey psychiatrist, Rosalie Greenberg, MD, who treats children had this to say:
"Dear editor
I read with great interest the article by Bransfield, wherein the author reviewed potential contributors to and manifestations of heightened loss of control in Lyme
disease patients. As a child psychiatrist living in a Lyme-endemic state, New Jersey, in the USA, I have seen a number of children and adolescents who exhibit significant acute or gradual onset of highly oppositional behaviors often both at home and at school. Refusal to do classwork or homework, heightened paranoia or feeling
rejected by others is often present. In addition, they often demonstrate increased irritability, extreme temper tantrums, problems concentrating, elevated impulsivity, sensory hypersensitivity (sound, touch, smell, taste and/or light) and intense emotional lability. Parents describe these behaviors as either a sudden change or a period of worsening of a previous condition, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or mood disorder. During periods of intense anger over minimal issues, they can appear menacing and threaten to kill a sibling, parent or a friend or state that they want to die themselves. In a recent record review of 69 youth evaluated in my private
psychopharmacology practice, 49 of these new patients, without a known history of Lyme disease or other tick-borne disorders, demonstrated evidence of exposure to one or more of the pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia and Anaplasma on serologic testing performed by multiple laboratories. In addition, 6 of
the 69 patients were initially referred because of psychiatric difficulties observed by other physicians during the active treatment of tick-borne infections. Supporting this connection of childhood neuropsychiatric symptoms and tick-borne illness is a recent article looking at 27 youth diagnosed with bipolar disorder I or II, which found that
74% or 20/27 were diagnosed with at least one tick-borne illness based on serologic testing and clinician evaluation.2
Of note, bipolar disorder is a psychiatric illness that
carries a high risk of suicide. There appears to be no question that exploration of the association of Lyme disease and tick-borne illnesses with neuropsychiatric symptoms both in children and adults requires more extensive study."
Please consider that your child's change in behavior may be caused by an underlying infection. You will need to take your child to a specialist who understands tick-borne diseases. Contact us if you need a reference - delmarvalyme@yahoo.com
https://www.dovepress.com/aggressiveness-violence-homicidal…
