Definition
Clinical entity controversial multi-disease symptoms are not recognized by some medical teams. It is characterized by prolonged fatigue, lasting more than six months, which occurs without reason and that is not improved by rest. The syndrome now called chronic fatigue is a condition characterized by fatigue particularly intense and accompanied by exhaustion, during which the patient complains of various physical and psychological complaints specifically neuropsychological. Usually the chronic fatigue syndrome is confused with that of fibromyalgia but we shall see that there are some essential differences.
Overall patients affected by chronic fatigue are two times more often women than men and rather young while preferentially on fibromyalgia seems he patient a little older although fibromyalgia is also described in the adolescent.
If, in general the medical establishment defines chronic fatigue as a trivial symptom characterized by the onset of fatigue and exhaustion, it seems that the reality of chronic fatigue syndrome, which would cover between 150 to 350 people per 100 000 people in industrialized countries is more complex with more defined causes (especially infectious) that would better differentiate the syndrome of fibromyalgia. They are mainly women between 30 and 50 who are affected by this syndrome.
It seems that chronic fatigue syndrome is comparable to what the ancients called neurasthenia, effort syndrome, the neuromyasthénie epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, hypoglycemia, chronic candidiasis, the hyperventilation syndrome, fumes, chronic mononucleosis, infection with Epstein Barr syndrome, post-viral fatigue etc.
Chronic fatigue syndrome: what is it?
