Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or the Chronic Fatigue Dysfunction Syndrome is characterized by some symptoms that are often confused to be because of high blood pressure or influenza. The person often feels fatigued for long periods of time, with muscle cramps, nausea and other symptoms that are not cured by long rests. Even the fatigue suffered by individuals suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is debilitating and prolonged leading to gradual decrease in the person\'s ability to perform even daily activities due to tiredness.

Although not completely confirmed, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is known to have been caused due to an individual\'s faulty or affected immune system that might be a result of many causes such as prolonged illness from a severe disease, old age, environment, mental breakdown due to excess stress, nervous systems inflammation, or even as simple as due to viral or bacterial infection. Whatever be the cause, the patient tends to feel severe fatigue resulting in further infection of the already infected parts and more if not treated on time.

Since Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has specific symptoms, it is easier to detect the illness in someone if aware that such an illness exists. As mentioned, no direct action results in this disease. A variety of causes, alone or together might lead to this, sometimes gradually increasing in an individual. Sometimes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome might occur in a body following some other wound or infection or be caused due to even some minor surgery.

One piece of bad news about being affected by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is that there is no permanent cure to this disease. Treatments might make the feeling of tiredness lessen to a great extent and the patient would be able to continue with the ordinary daily tasks. However, long term treatment is yet been discovered for complete cure for this dreadful disease that saps one of their strength leaving them as weak as new born babies.

Catching onto the disease at an early stage can be advantageous as the patient would still have some strength and would be able to respond in a better manner to the medication. Since, as mentioned, there is no complete cure to this disease, medication might have to be taken on a long term basis or keep the medicine on hand to keep the disease at bay at all times.