In 2014, the Institute of Medicine agreed that “chronic fatigue syndrome” can result in “trivialization and stigmatization for patients afflicted with this illness.” They proposed a new name: Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID). The emphasis on “fatigue” also leads to misdiagnoses, as many illnesses present with fatigue. The name has been hotly contested by the ME/CFS community because it belittles the illness and fosters a dismissive attitude among physicians. Stephen Straus of the NIH to describe an illness that affected the inhabitants of Incline Village Nevada, as well as a spate of similar outbreaks across the country in the 1980s.
The name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was coined by Dr. who treat chronic fatigue syndrome consider ME and CFS to be essentially the same. Even though the case definitions of the two illnesses do not match, specialists in the U.S. Because there are two different terms, the combination ME/CFS, which stands for myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome, is often used.
The disease known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States has historically been called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) abroad. Patients with this disease are usually healthy before falling ill and can frequently pinpoint exactly when their illness began. In teens the most common trigger is mononucleosis. It is typically chronic, lasting years, sometimes decades, and is often preceded by an infection that resembles the flu. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or as it is more commonly known in the U.S., Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a disease that affects all of the major physiological systems in the body. “ME/CFS is a serious, chronic, complex, systemic disease that often can profoundly affect the lives of patients.” Institute of Medicine, Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness
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