Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
Push to classify chronic fatigue as a disability gains traction
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Push to classify chronic fatigue as a disability gains traction
Friday 23 September 2022, 03:07 PM

Otago University emeritus professor Warren Tate says long COVID could be a game changer for ME/CFS [Image: supplied]
“It is a long-lasting illness, limiting almost all patients to carry out normal activities of daily life, let alone work-related tasks”
There’s s, CAMPBELL MURDOCH W2, Retired GP Campbell Murdoch says viral illnesses, such as polio, glandular fever and flu, have often caused long-term fatigue
References
Tate, W., Walker, M., Sweetman, E., Helliwell, A., Peppercorn, K., Edgar, C., Blair, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). Molecular mechanisms of neuroinflammation in ME/CFS and long COVID to sustain disease and promote relapses. Frontiers in Neurology, 13, 877772. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.877772