Abstract :
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a complicated disease that classified as a dangerous one. The common symptom of this disease is the tiredness or exhaustion that stays in the body for at least six months. The cause of CFS is not clear yet, but viruses, abnormalities in the immune system, and hormonal imbalance might cause CFS. The Diagnosis process is not based on a certain test that done in the lab then the result can be taken directly, but it based on tracking some diagnostic criteria which are severe fatigue, reduction In the activity levels, and some symptoms of CFS like sore throat and sleep disorder. The treatment is also mysterious until now, but the treatment will be easier by treating its cause if the doctor knows the cause of
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CFS. Following a healthy diet and doing some exercise can contribute in treating this condition and reducing the tired sometimes. 2.Introduction : Our life is full of sadness and happiness, but we should know how to deal with both of them in a good way in order to believe that we make our life brighter and beautiful. Economic crisis, death, and disease are some of these bad things that might change our life to a bad one. Some diseases are simple, while others are complicated. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one of these complicated diseases that might affect our life badly. In the past, the medical scientist discovered an illness was called Nervous Exhaustion. Nowadays, the name of this disease has been changed into "Chronic fatigue syndrome"(1). This disease was discovered in nineteen ninety-eight and listed under the International Classification of diseases ICD-9.
World Health Organization (WHO) classifies it as a dangerous disease and its main cause is unknown yet (2). This disease can hit all people but the chance of elderly people is higher than young. Women have the large percentage than men of being infected by this disease. Many doctors defined CFS by saying "it is a disorder characterized by a state of chronic fatigue that persists for more than six months, has no clear cause, and is accompanied by cognitive difficulties." (3). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is dangerous and it has been termed as a syndrome because it is a combination or overlapping of many disorders together such as a headache, tired, and sleep disorder. It can be diagnosed by noticing the severe fatigue which is a continues tired that cannot get better even in the rest time. This tiredness should stay in the patient's body for six months at least to consider it as CFS condition. This disease has the ability to affect the person's life in a bad way. For example, it can prohibit the patient from running in his normal life and doing his tasks and work. There is no single …show more content…
test to confirm a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome. You may need a variety of medical tests to rule out other health problems that have similar symptoms. According to that, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been reported some diagnostic criteria that might help doctors in the diagnosis process (4). Severe fatigue, reduction In the activity levels, and some symptoms of CFS such as sleep disorder and sore throat are these three criteria that have been arranged according to their importance (5). CFS has no specific and main cause until now. But there are some factors that have a probability to cause this disease. Changing in the immune system, viruses, and hormonal imbalance are these factors which have been published based on many doctor speculating (6). As many diseases, genetics might cause a lot of them but it has not provided yet as a cause of CFS. 3.Definition : Chronic fatigue syndrome is one of the most complicated diseases in the world. It targets the person's nervous system which is commonly called as a neurological illness. CFS is a medical condition which can be described by the tiredness that is a long-term fatigue next to some symptoms that can limit the ability of the person to carry out ordinary daily activities. This disease was termed as a chronic because it stays in the patient's body for a long time. 4.Causes : In order of being aware of diseases, we should know their causes. CFS doesn’t have any clear or specific cause that might consider as its cause. Many scientists have studied some factors in order to find their ability to cause this disease. Hormonal imbalance, viruses, and changing in the immune system might be the causes of CFS according to many doctors' speculating. Genetic has been studied also but it didn't show that it might cause CFS. 4.1 Viruses : The first cause can be the viral one. Many doctors also believe that viruses have a big probability of causing CFS but they don’t specify a special kind of viruses. Researchers have studied many types of viruses such as Ross River virus (RRV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), rubella, Coxiella brunette human herpes virus 6, and mycoplasma. After that, Many doctors say that people who are suffering from three of these viruses at least have a high percentage of being infected by CFS after this studying. 4.2 Immune System Abnormalities : The immune system abnormalities can be the second cause of CFS (7). A lot of doctors say that people with a weakening in the immune system are likely to have CFS. Because of this weakening, the ability of their bodies to receive this disease will increase. Increasing the number of chemical messengers that are the immune system regulator can cause a change in the immune system which in turn might cause this disease. 4.3 Hormonal Imbalance : Lastly, the imbalance of hormones can also cause CFS (8). This hormonal imbalance is common within women according to many reasons such as pregnancy and menopause. Thus, the rate of women who suffer from this disease will be higher than men. This imbalance also includes the uncontrolled secretion of hormones in the adrenal glands. 5.Symptoms : The symptoms are signals that present in the patient body including the subjective one, which the patient can tell the doctor and the objective one, which can be noticed after doing some tests in the lab. These symptoms are important because they will help doctors to know the presence or the absence of disease. CFS symptoms are variable. The main and most common signal is the continuous tired that cannot leave the patient even when he is resting (9). This tiredness will be as an obstacle for the patient because it will force him to suffer all the time and lose his ability to run in his life. This fatigue doesn’t seem like any tired that might hit the patient after a sleepless night. Other primary symptoms are a sore throat, sleep disorder and problems, joint pain, and headache. These symptoms should stay with the tiredness for a period which is not less than six months. Depression and bad mood are minor symptoms that have been noticed in some patients (10). 6.Treatment : Treatment is one of the most important steps in the disease history.
CFS is a complicated disease as it doesn’t have any treatment (11). This kind of diseases is usually treated by cure their causes. However, there are some strategies that might treat the symptoms or reduce the pain. Eating a healthy food that riches of fibers, starch, and omega three, which is present in fish and oils is a good way to treat CFS (12). All these food can support the immune system and fight the pain. Doing exercise is also an important technique in treat CFS because many studies proved that patients who are doing exercise regularly have a good day function and less tired than those who don’t do (13). It is also important for the patients to manage their time between resting, activities, and sleep. Many studies have also said that patients with CFS should control their reaction and stay active as much as they can (14). If these strategies don’t improve the patient condition, especially in the severe one, the patient should ask his doctor about joining clinical
trials. 7.Conclusion : All in all, Chronic fatigue syndrome can be characterized as one of the most complicated diseases in our life. This disease can affect the patient in his social and educational life in a horrible way. Because CFS's cause is mysterious, many researchers have studied a lot of environmental factors in order to reach the best result about their possibility to cause CFS. Viruses, hormones, and immune system are one of these factors which have been proved in their ability to cause CFS (15). Symptoms are important for any disease. CFS has a special symptom which is the severe fatigue. This tiredness persists in the patient body for a long time up to six months. It also can impair the patient's ability from running in his life. Other primary symptoms next to the severe fatigue are a sore throat, sleep disorder, and joints' problems. Some signals like the bad mood have been noticed at a minimum rate of patients. Finding a treatment is the last step during the disease period. Unfortunately, chronic fatigue syndrome doesn’t have any specific treatment that might cure this disease directly. Doctors were running in their way to find any treatment that can improve the symptoms at least. After that, they reached some information about many techniques that might cure CFS. Following a healthy lifestyle including the food and exercise, staying active, managing time, and finding the cause of CFS can contribute in treating this condition of CFS disease.
Another weakness in the experimental design was that the reliability of the experiment was very low. As each test subject was only tested against each amount of prior exercise once, the impact of random errors is likely very large, which can be seen by the spread of the data on the graph. Although, this was attempted to be rectified by averaging the results of all four test subjects, it does not improve reliability too much. Conclusion: The results of this investigation indicated that a relationship between the amount of prior exercise and muscle fatigue does exist, however the results are also not conclusive enough to speculate on what the relationship is. This means that the hypothesis “If the amount of time spent performing vigorous exercise prior to the set of repetitions increases, then the physical performance (number of repetitions) will decrease” cannot be supported or rejected due to the inconclusive data.
In spite of the fact that there is no cure for cystic fibrosis, treatment can ease symptoms and decrease complications. Other forms of treatment include, chest physical therapy (CPT) used to loosen mucus up to four times each day. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is another treatment physician’s recommend. PR is utilized to enhance lung capacity and general prosperity.
CF is a chronic condition therefore the patients are either seeking medical attention or receiving (sometime involuntarily) a great deal of medical scrutiny and intervention during their lifetime.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD is a group of progressive lung diseases that block airflow and make it hard to breathe. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the most common types of COPD (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2016, p 557). Primary symptoms include coughing, mucus, chest pain, shortness of breath, and wheezing (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2016, p.557). COPD develops slowly and worsens over time if not treated during early stages. The disease has no cure, but medication and disease management can slow its progress and make one feel better (NIH, 2013)
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... gastrointestinal tract, causing stomach cramps that are consistent. Sleep disturbances or lack of good sleep, usually caused by some form of sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome (RLS) that does not allow the body to completely relax and fall into an uninterrupted deep sleep. Temperature sensitivity, when it’s warm, it feels too hot for them or vise versa for cold or cooler weather. It affects Sensitivity to loud noises or bright lights, limiting their ability to be in a noisy environment like a restaurant or even drive a vehicle at night. Cognitive issues with thinking and memory, such as concentration or disorganized thinking. It also causes the inability to stay focused and cognitive recognition, such as seeing a pen on the counter but not being able to say the word pen. This is very common with fibromyalgia and is often called “fibro fog” (Huffington Post).
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