11/14/2025
🧠💥 PANDAS + PANS — What Moms Should Know
If your child suddenly changed “overnight” — anxiety, OCD-like behaviors, tics, big emotions, sleep struggles — you’re not imagining it.
PANDAS + PANS can trigger rapid shifts in behavior, emotions, and regulation because they directly affect the nervous system.
These conditions happen when infection or inflammation (like strep) causes the immune system to mistakenly attack areas of the brain that control behavior, emotion, movement, and regulation.
That leaves kids stuck in:
⚡ Fight-or-flight
⚡ Sensory overload
⚡ Emotional dysregulation
⚡ Sleep + focus struggles
At SFC, we don’t treat PANDAS/PANS — but we do support the system most affected: the nervous system.
Gentle, neurologically-focused adjustments + Insight scans help calm the brain, improve vagus nerve function, support immune balance, and help kids regulate again.
If this sounds like your child, you’re not alone — and there is support for their nervous system. 💛