Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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- Debilitating, long term condition that affects approximately 1% of the population
- From relatively normal lives to being bed ridden
- 25% house bound at some point
- 75% unable to work
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- Signs and symptons
- Unexplained fatigue
- Inability to performe tasks that were previously possible
- > 6 months
- Post exertional malaise
- Sleep disturbances
- Unrefreshing sleep
- Orthostatic intolerance
- Cognitive dysfunction (brain fog)
- Palpitations
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- Risk factors
- Females 2-4x more common
- Age 30-60 most commonly
- US CDC: Biological illness
- WHO: Neurological disease
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- Diagnosis of exclusion:
- Hypothyrodism
- Anemia
- Celiac's disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Treatment
- Focus is improvng quality of life
- CBT
- Rintatolimod
- Antiviral immune response modulator