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Encephalomyelitis / Encephalitis are an Acquired Brain Injury

Encephalomyelitis, Encephalitis are both “acquired brain injuries”.

Meningitis and Encephalitis Fact Sheet

What is meningitis? What is encephalitis? What causes meningitis and encephalitis? Who is at risk for encephalitis and meningitis? How are these disorders transmitted? What are the signs and symptoms? How are meningitis and encephalitis diagnosed? How are these infections treated? Can meningitis and encephalitis be prevented? What is the prognosis for these infections? What research is being done? Where can I get more information?

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Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain; the brain mass. Nerve cells or the white matter of the brains are directly damaged. Encephalitis is usually caused by a virus, sometimes by a bacterium. Often after or during a viral infection elsewhere in the body. Also known as a reaction of the immune system, even after vaccination. The distinction between meningitis is blurred, because often the meninges are inflamed too with encephalitis. https://www.braininjury-explanation.com/.../encephalitis

Experts consider encephalitis something of a mystery, and its origins and progress unpredictable. While encephalitis may be caused by a virus, bacteria or autoimmune disease, a precise cause remains unknown in 50 percent of cases. Symptoms range from fever, headache and confusion in some, to seizures, severe weakness or language disability in others. The most complex cases can land patients in intensive care units, on ventilators, for months. Drugs like the antiviral acyclovir are available for herpes encephalitis, which occurs in up to 15 percent of cases, but for most cases, doctors have only steroids and immunosuppressant drugs, which carry serious side effects. https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel.../2013/08/130820134758.htm

Dr Hyde

“The physician and patient alike should remember that CFS is not a disease. It is a chronic fatigue state where the one essential characteristic of M.E. is acquired Central Nervous System (CNS) dysfunction, that of CFS is primarily chronic fatigue. By assumption, this CFS fatigue can be acquired abruptly or gradually. Secondary symptoms and signs were then added to this primary fatigue anomaly. None of these secondary symptoms is individually essential for the definition and few are scientifically testable. Despite the list of signs and symptoms and test exclusions in these definitions, patients who conform to any of the CDC, Oxford, Australian and Canadian CFS definitions may still have an undiagnosed major illness, certain of which are potentially treatable. Although the authors of these definitions have repeatedly stated that they are defining a syndrome and not a specific disease, patient, physician, and insurer alike have tended to treat this syndrome as a specific disease or illness, with at times a potentially specific treatment and a specific outcome. This has resulted in much confusion, and many physicians are now diagnosing CFS as though it were a specific illness. They either refer the patient to pharmaceutical, psychiatric, psychological, or social treatment or simply say: “you have CFS and nothing can be done about it”. The CFS definitions have another curiosity. If in any CFS patient, any major organ or system injury or disease is discovered, the patient is removed from the definition. The CFS definitions were written in such a manner that CFS becomes like a desert mirage: The closer you approach, the faster it disappears and the more problematic it becomes.”


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