Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatment
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating disease that causes significant tiredness and weakness. In some cases it can cause general muscle pain and a multiple number of symptoms. Unfortunately, the exact cause of chronic fatigue syndrome is unknown. Chronic fatigue syndrome most commonly arises from flu like symptoms or from neurological, endocrinological and immunological dysfunction in the body. As there are many causes for CFS, there are several types of chronic fatigue syndrome treatment. Here are the main chronic fatigue syndrome treatment.
Steroid injections
Steroid injections using hydrocortisone has been found to be useful for chronic fatigue syndrome treatment. Steroid or cortisone treatment is useful to treat CFS because it helps to increase the body’s metabolic system and help reduce any inflammatory disorder that is affecting the body system.
Antidepressants
Antidepressants are used to treat CFS as it helps to stop mood swings and stress. It also allows the person with CFS to sleep better so people can get more refreshing sleep during the night. This allows the person to have more energy during the day and will fatigue less.
Anti-viral treatment
As some CFS is caused by viruses, antiviral treatments have been shown to be effective in treating CFS. Some antiviral treatments that are effective in treating CFS is Valacyclovir, Ampligen, Interferon and IGG. Out of all the antiviral treatments, Interferon has been shown to be the most effective way in treating chronic fatigue syndrome in random control studies.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Random control studies have found that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have a 40 percent success rate when they undergo cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Cognitive behavioural therapy is where patients undergo psychological therapy to change the persons belief and thinking regarding their pain, suffering and their symptoms. CBT have been shown to lower the patients level of symptoms and for a quick recovery.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is one of the two most effective ways to treat chronic fatigue syndrome.
Exercise
Graded exercise is one of the most effective ways of treating chronic fatigue syndrome. Exercise helps the most as it allows people suffering from CFS have higher confidence levels, higher metabolic levels, general strength and decreased pain.
People who have CFS are generally weak and fatigued initially. Hence, a graded exercise is important in treating CFS. That is, the exercises that is being used in CFS must start easy with low resistance and low repetition exercises which is then slowly progressed for higher resistance and repetition. A train physical therapist will give you the best program to help treat chronic fatigue syndrome.