C F S  - Information International Toxins &  CFS

Environmental Factors - Effect on Disease

Interest in the effect of environmental factors on health and diseases is growing, focusing also on the difficulties inherent in measuring these effects, Kipen, 2002 and  Kipen, 2002. A review of chemical brain damage lists CFS among the diseases covered, chemical.brain01.txt.

A 2002-study discus the issue of contested causation in relation to chronic disease,  Engel, 2002.  A newspaper article cites research on early toxic exposure causing later neurodegeneration, News, Neurodegeneration, 2003.

The combined effect of stress and chemicals have shown to be devastating to brain tissue, ever after short periods of time, news.chemicals.stress04.txt.

Possible role for early-life immune insult including developmental immunotoxicity in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), dietert.dietert08.txt, dietert.dietert08.pdf.

Organophosphates and CFS

Sheep dip contains organophosphates and is a known risk factor to the sheep farmers, but studies have not been able to correlate exposure with symptom severity,  Tahmaz et al., 2003, Tahmaz et al., 2003.

Timber workers exposed to PCP (pentachlorophenol) develop CFS as a long term risk,  Gorman et al, 2001. It now appears, that people with certain genes are more prone to the harmful effects of organophosphates,  Lancet, 2002.

Four diagnosed ME/CFS cases were caused by pesticides and treated with choline and ascorbic acid accordingly,  Richardson, 2000.

NY psychiatrists studied toxic exposure in their patients and found those with CFS reporting higher exposure,  Noble & Endicott, 2002.

Exposure to pesticides and herbicides etc. may hold greater risks than previously expected,  HealthScout, 2002.  Especially the long term effects of toxins like Pesticides, Phthalates, PVC etc. are very important in relation to CFS - and probably to other chronic diseases as well,  link, Neurosite, 1999.

Dental Amalgam & Metals

Whether or not dental amalgam presents a major health risk is still in question, yip.etal03.txt. Diagnosis and treatment of metal-induced side-effects, stejskal.etal06.txt.

Ciguatoxin and CFS

A fish toxin, Ciguatera, inflicts acute and chronic symptoms very similar to CFS,  Ting & Brown, 2001.  A study on ciguatoxin epitopes and CFS showed similarities in a MIA (membrane immunobead assay) lab test,  Hokama et al., 2003, Hokama et al., 2003 (pdf) and release of ‘chronic phase lipids’ against similar, crossreactive epitopes were hypothesized, hokama.etal.03.pdf.

Testing for Neurotoxins

An Italian 2001-study of CFS cases caused by toxic exposure did not find specific immunological markers,  Racciatti et al., 2001.

In Canada testing for toxins in blood has started as an attempt to analyze the extend of the problem,  Toronto Star, 2000.

Bacterial toxins

Membrane Damaging Toxins from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus Are Associated with Self-Reported Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) in Patients with CFS, metcalf.etal04.txt and richards.etal04.txt, richards.etal04.pdf.

Detoxification

Various treatments for toxic exposure have been suggested, foster.etal03.txt

Radiation

A very interesting study on Chernobyl clean-up workers disclosed many symptoms identical to those of CFS, along with other symptoms,  Loganovsky, 2000.

Index Welcome CFS case def. Prevalence Prognosis Brain Inflam Post-Polio Hypotheses

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