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Eliminate any unnecessary stresses, schedules or deadlines from your life, especially those that are self-imposed.

Learn a good relaxation technique and practise it every day.

Plan regular and restful vacations, by yourself or with your partner.

Examine your life to see if there are any major decisions you are avoiding.

Get professional help from a minister, counsellor or psychiatrist, if the problems you are dealing with are simply too great. Share your problems with a trusted friend.

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Now known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Chronic Fatigue and Immune System Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), this is a very real and very disabling physical illness that causes profound fatigue and muscle weakness following a viral illness. This syndrome is also known as Myalgic Encephalitis (ME), post- infectious neuromyasthenia, post-viral syndrome, yuppie flu, or formerly chronic Epstein Barr virus. CFIDS can cause injury to the brain, immune system and muscles of the people who suffer from it.

CFIDS was formerly thought to be caused by the Epstein Barr virus, but this has not been proven. Other viruses may also be associated with this syndrome, including herpes 6 virus, enteroviruses (coxsackie B virus, poliovirus, echovirus, etc.) hepatitis virus, influenza virus, adenovirus, and cytomegalovirus. For the viral infection to take hold, the immune system is usually already weakened by a number of causes, including the overuse of antibiotics and cortisone, major stress, poor diet and chronic yeast infections.

Dr. Byron Hyde, a leading Canadian CFIDS researcher, notes that like poliomyelitis, the incidence of CFIDS goes up after immunization, and also in late summer and early autumn. He strongly recommends that "individuals do not go to work in third world countries or start work in hospitals or schools during the first four weeks after immunization."

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The long awaited case definition of CFIDS was published in the Dec 15/94 issue of, Annuals of Internal Medicine (121;953-959). It recommends that a "thorough medical history, physical exam, mental status exam and laboratory tests be done to exclude other underlying or contributing conditions that require treatment. Diagnosis or classification cannot be made without such an evaluation."

It goes on to say that clinically evaluated and unexplained chronic fatigue cases can be classified as CFIDS if the patient meets both of the following criteria:

Dr. Hyde emphasizes the muscular component of the chronic fatigue syndrome. He defines the condition as, "a chronic illness of at least six months in duration, that develops after an acute infectious disease, in a well and physically active person. In this disease, the patient develops an unusual form of muscle failure experiencing fatigue, pain, or exhaustion in the exercised muscle."

Other important features of this illness, according to Dr. Hyde, are sleep disturbances, variability and fluctuations of symptoms, serious difficulty processing information (memory loss, lack of concentration, slurred speech, disorientation, loss of coordination) and generalized malaise.

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