Article at:Infections, Antibiotic Use Linked to Manic Episodes in People with Serious Mental Illness | bpHope - bp Magazine Community
"In research using patient medical records, investigators from Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt Health System report that people with serious mental disorders who were hospitalized for mania were more likely to be on antibiotics to treat active infections than a group of people without a mental disorder.

Although the researchers caution that their study does not suggest cause and effect, they note that it does suggest that an infection, use of antibiotics or other factors that change the body’s natural collection of gut and other bacteria may individually or collectively contribute to behavioral changes in some people with mental disorders."

Thought it was interesting because the first time I was manic I was on antibiotics for sinus infection and the last few I was diagnosed first with UTI. Some people in comments suggest probiotics to help...