PLT Test Blog

One day last week Monty, aged 12 with ASD, was watching an old Tom and Jerry DVD.   These DVDs, along with the other action-packed ones, once got hidden away because they drove Monty wild; now they do not. This is what I was doing while Tom was chasing                                                                         Jerry. I received another interesting comment from a reader who found a small dose of an antidepressant had a very positive effect on his 9 year old daughter:- “My daughter (9, ASD) recently started on a very small dose of Remeron, in an effort to increase weight and as a bonus, hopefully improve sleep. It has done both. It also had an immediate unexpected but delightful side effect of improved social skills, more fluent speech and increased amount of conversation. The first day she tri...

Having recently discovered that an anti-histamine drug like Claritin can markedly reduce autistic behaviours, I have been looking into exactly why this might be and to see if there could be any other related interventions.   Here are t he results and they pull together all sorts of related comorbidities and in the end I seem to have found a better solution for managing summertime autism flare-ups. Allergies have long been linked to aggressive behaviours It seems to be well known among allergists, that children with allergies may exhibit challenging behaviours.   It goes beyond the simple fact that the child with an allergy will be irritable and therefore behave badly; the allergy itself is affecting the behaviour.   Allergies tend to worsen behaviour and the science can explain exactly why this happens.    This applied to pollen type allergies, food allergies and even asthma. In the case of asthma, I found several studies, one is called:   Prevale...