subject: Useful Facts On Chronic Weakness Syndrome [print this page] All people may experience fatigue, whether one is a teacher, a working mom or just a plain student. It is caused by too much stress that may come from work or simply worry and affects both the physical and mental part of the body. Fatigue is good because it signals the body to get some rest. It gets bad when it becomes a recurring experience, and that is the case for most people today.
Fatigue causes the body to tire and the muscles to weaken. When you are fatigued, your body loses its ability to use energy. The central nervous system may also fail if the body is experiencing too much fatigue. That is the reason why some people who have recurring fatigue lose their ability to remember things easily. In short, fatigue results in memory loss.
Lack of sleep and rest may result to stress, and stress later on may result to bodily fatigue. People who are not physically fit are usually the ones who get fatigued easily. That is because their bodies have not been trained to perform in an optimum level. If you have health conditions like chronic heart disease, diabetes, cancer or asthma, expect that you will experience fatigue more often than those who do not have your condition.
People who have the condition called hypocalcemia are also said to experience fatigue frequently. Hypocalcemia refers to the low level of serum calcium in the blood. Another common condition that causes fatigue is depression. When you are depressed, you are usually tired mentally and when the mind is tired, the body often gets tired, too.
Now, there is a kind of fatigue that can last for how many months. This kind of fatigue is not caused by various illnesses and doesn't show symptoms that these diseases do. It is called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome may show symptoms like weakening of muscles and lymph nodes. The name itself indicates that it is a serious case.
The exhaustion that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome brings is just overwhelming. A lot of Americans are suffering from this and though some experts have concluded that this syndrome has something to do with the virus infection in the immune system, they are still not sure what the root cause is.
