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I wrote extensive earlier posts about using H1 anti-histamine drugs to control autism flare-ups.   Summertime allergies can result in anger, loss of control and ultimately, self-injury. Controlling Anger In Autism with H1 antagonist, Claritin Histamine, allergies and reducing challenging “autistic-like” behaviours More on anti-histamines in Autism and introducing H4   Although this blog is about pharmacological interventions that can help in autism, I am firmly in the ABA behavioural intervention camp.   The drugs can indeed help, but are always going to be secondary to a very labour intensive intervention.   Anger in autism Depending on how lucky you are, parents experience widely differing levels of anger from kids with ASD.   For those who have not experienced the extremes, here is my summary:- Level 1            Bad temper Level 2            Tantrum w...

Today’s post is about a little experiment I carried out. If you have been following my blog, you will know that I have been looking into certain related diseases to autism (comorbidities).  One of the subjects that come up in asthma research is the role of a special kind of cell, called the mast cell.  One autism researcher in particular, Dr Theoharides, is also of the opinion that the mast cell plays a key role in autism. For today, I am not going to give you the full detail on mast cells, just to tell you that play a key role in inflammatory responses and that they can get over-activated and cause problems in various parts of your body. It is well established that you can calm down your overactive mast cells with histamine antagonists.  There are H1 antagonists like Claritin/Loratadine and H2 antagonists like Tagamet.  H1 antagonists are commonly used to control allergies, and H2 antagonists are commonly used for stomach ulcers and GERD. Claritin is off patent,...