New Findings of Brain Abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
It is the history of medicine that people with emerging diseases awaiting scientific advances are treated poorly by the medical profession and the community. Early cases of MS, polio, myasthenia gravis and CJO were treated as hysteria.
CFS suffers the same fate.
Today severely ill young people can face enforced removal from their famiies by court processes as a consequence of such false psychiatric labels as hysteria, school phobia, Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, etc. Such cases occur in Australia today and avoid public scrtiny by legal bans placed upon the media.
Worldwide research is now increasingly demonstrating abnormal findings of pathophysiology.
Dr Richard Burnet, Senior Endocrinologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, discussed brain scans demonstrating emerging evidence of significant blood flow abnormalities in CFS.
Dr Burnet also discussed the serious but rarely acknowledged gastrointestinal symptoms experienced by people with CFS and presented his latest findings of clear abnormalities of gastric function — a marked delay in the rate that the food, especially fluids, leaves the stomach.
Full report on the Information Day pending.
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