Toxic Causes of CFS

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Toxic Causes of CFS: Part One – Recognizing the Symptoms

by Myhill, M.D.

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01-10-2001 - Editor's Note: Mayhill, M.D., is a British doctor

working both for the National Health Service and with a private

practice. About 10% of her NHS patients suffer from CFS and approx. 70%

in her private practice have it. Dr. Myhill is a medical advisor to

Action for ME, a national support organization in the UK for ME/CFS

sufferers. She is also the Honorary Secretary of the British Society for

Allergy Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.

Dr. Myhill has written extensively about CFS over the years, covering

all aspects of the disease from diagnosis to causal theories to

treatments. This excerpt is adapted from her book " Diagnosing and

Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome " , and is used with permission of the

author.

This is the first in a two part series.

Toxic Causes of CFS: Recognizing the Problem and Typical Symptoms

When I first started treating patients with CFS, the cause was either

viral or " I don't know " . I now realize that many of the " I don't knows "

were cases of poisoning either from organophosphates, silicone, carbon

monoxide, sick building syndrome (formaldehyde, volatile organic

compounds etc) and so on. Furthermore, I now suspect that many of those

patients with post viral CFS actually were poisoned by some chemical

which weakened the immune system so that it was unable to cope

adequately with a subsequent viral infection.

The sort of problems I have seen are: CFS following sheep dipping,

spraying agricultural chemicals, being sprayed by tractor or helicopter

and spray drift, working in a chicken farm (fumigation, control of

parasites), repeated head lice treatments, house fumigations for flea

control or bed bugs, insect control in hot countries with DDT, OPs etc,

control of sand flies (Gulf War Syndrome), greenhouse fumigations,

working in a research plant center where chemicals were weekly used to

prevent cross contamination, student doing a biology project with

pesticides, carpet factory where fleeces are washed after sheep have

been dipped, lorry driver delivering OPs to farmers, welders working in

a factory which was manufacturing OPs, timber treatments in houses,

treatment of external parasites in dogs, cats, cows (OP pour ons) and so

on. There are many other occupations where people are exposed to

chemicals, but incidents are often forgotten.

With silicone I am not just looking for the obvious breast implant or

silicone injections, but many other prostheses have biologically active

materials. Examples include testicular implants, lens implants, Norplant

contraceptive device (silicone rods), TMJ work, facial contouring,

meshes for hernia repairs etc. In the veterinary world reactions to

suture materials are well documented – not so in the medical world.

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