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Link: CFS news
Feb. 10th, 2016 21:27Three articles worth noting:
Why exercise magnifies exhaustion for chronic fatigue syndrome patients - "The mechanism that causes high-performance athletes to 'feel the burn' turns out to be the culprit in what makes people with chronic fatigue syndrome feel exhausted by the most common daily activities, new research shows."
How doctors are failing to spot the brain injury that could be behind 30,000 cases of ‘chronic fatigue’ (spoiler: it's post-traumatic hypopituitarism (PTHP))
Antibody wipeout found to relieve chronic fatigue syndrome - "Rituximab wipes out most of the body’s B-cells, which are the white blood cells that make antibodies. Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella of the Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen noticed its effect on CFS symptoms in 2004, when they used the drug to treat lymphoma in a person who happened to also have CFS. Several months later, the person’s CFS symptoms had disappeared. A small, one-year trial in 2011 found that two-thirds of those who received rituximab experienced relief, compared with none of the control group. The latest study, involving 29 people with CFS, shows that repeated rituximab infusions can keep symptoms at bay for years."
Why exercise magnifies exhaustion for chronic fatigue syndrome patients - "The mechanism that causes high-performance athletes to 'feel the burn' turns out to be the culprit in what makes people with chronic fatigue syndrome feel exhausted by the most common daily activities, new research shows."
How doctors are failing to spot the brain injury that could be behind 30,000 cases of ‘chronic fatigue’ (spoiler: it's post-traumatic hypopituitarism (PTHP))
Antibody wipeout found to relieve chronic fatigue syndrome - "Rituximab wipes out most of the body’s B-cells, which are the white blood cells that make antibodies. Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella of the Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen noticed its effect on CFS symptoms in 2004, when they used the drug to treat lymphoma in a person who happened to also have CFS. Several months later, the person’s CFS symptoms had disappeared. A small, one-year trial in 2011 found that two-thirds of those who received rituximab experienced relief, compared with none of the control group. The latest study, involving 29 people with CFS, shows that repeated rituximab infusions can keep symptoms at bay for years."