Summertime Autism Raging and Dumber in the Summer
By far the most read post in this blog is one about histamine and allergies, which means many people are searching on Google for “histamine, allergy and autism”. Our reader Kei recently commented that his daughter, without allergy, was again showing signs of summertime raging and that his neurologist confirmed that summertime raging does indeed happen and nobody knows why. I did figure out how to deal with our version of “summertime raging” and the post-bumetanide “dumber in the summer” phenomena. There were several posts on this subject. The lasting solution was to treat the raging as if it was caused by inflammation driven by pollen allergy and to note that inflammation will further worsen the KCC2/NKCC1 imbalance in Bumetanide-responsive autism, making those people appear “dumber in the summer”. This also accounts for the “Bumetanide has stopped working” phenomenon, reported by some parents. You need to minimize inflammation from allergy and increase Bumet...