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Fascinating reading for anyone who suspects they had childhood ME/CFS onset.
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=28892
A few excerpts:
Did anyone else get the teen facial flushing rash? Abdominal pain? A childhood ADD diagnosis? Have medical providers not believe your neurological symptoms?
Does anyone else suspect that "during adolescence the symptom pattern coalesces into that of ME/CFS, so that it becomes possible to say that ‘in retrospect’ the illness began in early childhood"?
I was surprised the article did not mention vision problems.
Hope this proves interesting to others with childhood/teen ME/CFS onset.
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=28892
A few excerpts:
For the most part ME/CFS can only be diagnosed in adolescents and older individuals. Children below the age of 8 or 9 do not have the symptom pattern of adolescents past puberty. If the onset of the disease occurs during adolescence, the most common time of onset, the pattern is similar to that of adults.
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There are minor differences between adolescent ME/CFS and the adult ME/CFS. One is that abdominal pain is more common while this symptom is not even a part of some adult symptom criteria.
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In addition, facial flushing is more common in teens. ... this flushing rash is also mentioned and considered a standard symptom, one that involves the autonomic nervous system, as this part of the nervous system controls the diameter of the blood vessels.
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However during adolescence the symptom pattern coalesces into that of ME/CFS, so that it becomes possible to say that ‘in retrospect’ the illness began in early childhood.
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The cognitive symptoms from age 3 to age 12 are indistinguishable from attention deficit disorder, and this is another area that has never been adequately studied.
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Improvement of the activity level of a teen with the disease is the best marker of illness status.
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Children and teens feel that they have to prove their illness to medical providers, and that is not possible.
Did anyone else get the teen facial flushing rash? Abdominal pain? A childhood ADD diagnosis? Have medical providers not believe your neurological symptoms?
Does anyone else suspect that "during adolescence the symptom pattern coalesces into that of ME/CFS, so that it becomes possible to say that ‘in retrospect’ the illness began in early childhood"?
I was surprised the article did not mention vision problems.
Hope this proves interesting to others with childhood/teen ME/CFS onset.