Controlling Anger In Autism with H1 antagonist, Claritin
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,...