{"id":633302,"date":"2026-10-17T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633302\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:10:09","slug":"ten-year-old-from-oxfordshire-lights-up-the-london-eye-for-pandas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633302\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-year-old from Oxfordshire lights up the London Eye for PANDAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PANS, and its subtype PANDAS, are both caused by a misdirected immune response which results in an inflammation of a child&#8217;s brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This can cause children to suffer distressing personality changes and exhibit symptoms including anxiety, aggressive behaviour, depression, and insomnia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The condition was recognised by the World Health Organisation in 2018, but is still not widely known in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albie began campaigning to raise awareness when he was just eight years old, after seeing the impact it had on a family member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are just a normal family who never asked to be in this position,&#8221; his mum Megan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When Albie saw how much we were struggling, he stood up and started fighting for his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was only trying to help the people he loves, and somehow that has grown into a campaign that is now giving hope to families far beyond our own.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANS, and its subtype PANDAS, are both caused by a misdirected immune response which results in an inflammation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-633302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}