Slymes 4 Lyme

06/08/2026

Not all stretch marks are from growth or weight gain.

Bartonella can affect:

🩸 blood vessels
🧬 connective tissue
🔥 inflammatory pathways

And in some kids and teens, this shows up as:

• unusual stretch marks
• streak-like rashes
• skin changes that seem excessive or unexplained

Particularly when they appear alongside:

• anxiety
• OCD
• rage
• foot pain
• neurological symptoms
• PANS/PANDAS patterns

These marks are often:

• red or purple
• unusual in location
• not proportional to body changes

Most providers aren't taught to connect these dots. But in complex kids, skin findings can sometimes offer important clues about what's happening beneath the surface.

06/06/2026

People who are raising a child with complex medical and neurological conditions, including significant challenges with receptive, expressive, and processing abilities that can fluctuate from moment to moment.

What may look like “behavior” from the outside is often the result of nervous system not being able to consistently process language, regulation, or instruction in real time. Sometimes the child can and sometimes it won’t. It’s unlikely it sticks too. It is not simple, and it is not consistent.

The most meaningful thing people can do is offer patience, kindness, or practical support not judgment or assumptions about what is happening in those moments.

Families are doing the best they can with a very complex situation. Live and love!

Read more about what we can do about it: The Natural Approach
1. Healing without Hurting: https://amzn.to/4eptvYu

2. Brain Under Attack: https://amzn.to/3SnY08w

05/30/2026

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05/30/2026

05/27/2026

"Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly disabling mental illness that can be divided into frequent primary and rarer organic secondary forms. Its association with secondary autoimmune triggers was introduced through the discovery of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infection (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS). Autoimmune encephalitis and systemic autoimmune diseases or other autoimmune brain diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, have also been reported to sometimes present with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). Subgroups of patients with OCD show elevated proinflammatory cytokines and autoantibodies against targets that include the basal ganglia. In this conceptual review paper, the clinical manifestations, pathophysiological considerations, diagnostic investigations, and treatment approaches of immune-related secondary OCD are summarized. " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744027/

05/06/2026

Beyond Strep: The Overlooked Triggers of PANS/PANDAS

PANS/PANDAS is often associated with strep infections—but clinically, it’s rarely that simple. In many children, symptoms are triggered or sustained by a combination of factors, including:

• mycoplasma and viral infections
• tick-borne illness
• mold and environmental toxins
• gut pathogens and dysbiosis
• chronic immune activation

For some kids, it’s not a single trigger—it’s a “stacking” effect over time. This is one reason antibiotics alone often fail to produce lasting recovery. Understanding PANS/PANDAS requires looking beyond one pathogen and asking a bigger question: What is keeping the immune system activated? Sometimes, healing begins when we broaden the lens.