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Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease. CFIDS affects an estimated one to two million people, afflicting twice as many women as men.
How does chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome develop?
Many experts suspect that this condition has an autoimmune component, as many of those diagnosed with CFIDS have been found to have circulating antinuclear autoantibodies in their blood. However, most autoimmune diseases are associated with tissue destruction or organ damage, but in CFIDS there is no specific damage identified.
Chronic fatigue is a major symptom in many other illnesses, especially autoimmune diseases, so other conditions must be ruled out before a diagnosis of CFIDS is made. These conditions include lupus, multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, AIDS, antiphospholipid syndrome, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyositis, and depression. It's also thought that CFIDS may develop from a common virus by those with a genetic predisposition to develop the illness, as is the case with some of the other autoimmune diseases.
What are the symptoms of chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome?
The main symptom of CFIDS is an unusually debilitating fatigue that lasts six months or more and forces the patient to reduce activity. Other symptoms include impairment of short-term memory (brain fog), chronic sore throat, tender lymph nodes, muscle and joint pain, headaches, weakness on one side, unrefreshed sleep, low grade fevers, fatigue lasting for more than 24 hours after exertion, problems with concentration, flu-like symptoms, sleep disorders (apnea/insomnia), tingling in the legs or arms, and depression.
Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome but they do not address the root of the problem. Generally, by undergoing comprehensive natural medicine testing, the reasons the body is producing antibodies against itself can be found. Some of these reasons include sensitivities or allergies to foods, inhalants and chemicals and various infections.
Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome.
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