We run urine organic acid testing on almost every child who comes through our clinic.
Autism. PANS. PANDAS. Thousands of cases over the years.
 Different triggers. Same pattern. The same marker keeps flashing red.
5-HIAA.
Raised in over 80% of them. That’s serotonin turnover in overdrive. 
Not excess. Exhaustion.
The brain burning through its calm and sleep chemistry to survive inflammation. Parents describe the same picture before they ever see the results: wired at night, soaked in sweat, startled by sound, panicking over small changes, refusing food, trapped in rituals, raging one moment and inconsolable the next, exhausted but unable to rest. Then we test.
And the numbers tell the story their child’s body has been shouting. It’s a simple urine test - non-invasive, quick, clear.
But it shows exactly how the nervous system is coping under immune fire.
 When we reduce inflammation, repair the gut, and restore the missing cofactors, that number drops - and children start to stabilise. This is what objective data can do.
Evidence that the chaos is chemical, not character. #PANS #PANDAS #Autism #FunctionalMedicine #Neuroinflammation #RootCause

To all medics out there Can we normalise believing parents The ones who know their child The ones who’ve watched the light go out The ones who said “something changed overnight” and were told there’s nothing you can do The evidence is not missing You just keep dismissing it ‼️Parents and caregivers ‼️ If this was your experience Add your voice below 👇 Every story makes it harder to ignore #PANDAS #PANS #Autism #BelieveParents

A child changes - sometimes overnight, sometimes over weeks. Panics in the car. Refuses food. Can’t sleep. Clings to you all day. Terrified of noises. Wetting themselves. Obsessively tapping or blinking. Parents are told:
“It’s autism.” “It’s FND.”
“It’s sensory.”
“It’s behavioural.”
“It’s anxiety.”
“It’s your parenting.” No MRI. No EEG. No bloods. No immune workup. Just a label. A leaflet. A waiting list. No one asks: Why did this start after strep? After a virus? After antibiotics? After mould exposure? After a tick bite? No one asks: What changed in the brain? This is how PANS, PANDAS, encephalitis, metabolic disorders, and autoimmunity get missed. They needed medical investigation.
They got a behaviour chart. #Neuroinflammation #functionalmedicine