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I thought there should be at least one post about how life has changed during Covid-19.   Where we live, Monty’s life goes on pretty much as before, now we are back to home schooling - but that is nothing new for us. School starts at 9am, there are 3 or 4 classes a day online from school and then activities and exercises till 3.30pm.   We have PE, art and music like at school.  Piano practice continues most days. Monty’s latest addition to his routine is reading 30 pages a day of a novel in the evening.   Now that he has started, he insists on doing it every day.   Having finished the (boring) books from school, he is going to start reading his brother’s collection of Biggles novels. They are about a fictional fighter pilot, the series starts in 1916 and continues for 50 years (the author got old, but Biggles did not).  We are going to set the scene with one of the old epic films about fighter aces from 1914-18. The parks are closed and we have a curfew sta...

Magical Poland Today’s post is about yet another reason why some people with autism might have a positive behavioral response while on antibiotics. Today it is the turn of macrolide-type antibiotics, which have proven immunomodulatory effects. To get the immunomodulatory benefits, without worsening antibiotic resistance, a neat solution called CSY0073 is coming. Nystatin is another possibility. One of the best papers happens to come from a pair of researchers from Lodz ( Łódź, pronounced “Wudge”) in Poland. This blog has many Polish readers .   I was recently helping my son, Monty aged 14 with ASD, with his geography presentation on Poland.   I used to travel quite a lot to Poland and I am familiar with its turbulent history. So today’s picture above is actually from Monty’s PowerPoint presentation on Poland. As musical backing, we added one of Chopin’s Polonaises, since Monty is the piano man and Chopin was born in Poland. Polonaise (Polonez) is the name of a type of Polish...