Signs of chronic fatigue syndrome, many of us are ready to diagnose ourselves, overtired at work, experiencing constant stress and feeling a permanent breakdown. Let's find out how justified it is to draw parallels between this disease and ordinary malaise.
Chronic fatigue syndrome: symptoms, treatment
Feeling of impotence and recurring apathy often accompany residents of megacities. Especially those who work in the office and do not adhere to a he althy lifestyle. However, in recent years, these symptoms have taken on the character of a real epidemic. In the CIS countries, it is not customary to often address such complaints to doctors. They are most often attributed to a psychogenic character and it is believed that rest should make constant fatigue recede. In America, the problem of chronic overwork was treated with great attention: at the end of the twentieth century, studies were carried out there, the etiology of the above symptoms was carefully analyzed. As a result, a new disease was discovered. Allthese signs were considered symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
In 1984, Nevada doctors registered more than two hundred cases of this disease.
Weakness, depression, mood swings began to be considered signs of chronic fatigue syndrome. In the blood of all patients, a new virus was detected, which was called the Epstein-Barr virus. It has a herpetic origin - this can partly explain its ability to flow latently and not manifest itself for a long time. This feature of chronic fatigue syndrome explains the difficulties that arise in the diagnosis. Moreover, a decline in strength can indicate many other diseases. The syndrome can also be triggered by colds of a viral nature or exacerbation of chronic inflammatory processes. This disease affects mainly women from twenty to forty years old - they account for up to eighty percent of all cases.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Test and Manifestations
The signs of this disease allow, with a careful approach, to distinguish it from ordinary fatigue and constitutionally-conditioned weakness of nervous processes. The feeling that a person lives at the limit of his strength and cannot cope with those things that used to be easy, arises suddenly. Rest doesn't help. Prolonged sleep does not bring relief. And for a long time there is no improvement. In order toto diagnose the syndrome, firstly, it is necessary to exclude any systemic and chronic diseases. Secondly, in addition to a permanent feeling of extreme fatigue, other symptoms should also be present - pain in the back, joints and head, discomfort when touching the lymph nodes. Also often there is forgetfulness and confusion of thinking, anxiety, some symptoms resembling dystonia (dizziness, numbness of the limbs).
