Complex Chronic Disease
Some of the conditions that make up this category of illness include:
- Fibromyalgia
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Co-infections of Lyme including opportunistic infections such as Chlamydia pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae as well as Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, etc.
- Mold toxin illness
- Chronic viral infections like Epstein Barr
Unfortunately, many people affected by these conditions go undiagnosed and miss-diagnosed for many years, in large part because of the variety of organ systems affected and therefore symptoms produced.
Complex Chronic Disease
Complex Chronic Disease
Some of the most common Complex Chronic Disease symptoms include:
Profound fatigue
Long COVID
Testing for Complex Chronic Disease
Testing for these conditions is notoriously unreliable, however, there have been important commitments by the Canadian government regarding improving testing and diagnosis. www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research
While we are waiting for the necessary updates to the Canadian testing system, Armin labs (based in Germany) has proven to be the most reliable for various infectious causes of illness. Thankfully there are other labs very useful and accurate for mold toxin illness and gastrointestinal causes of disease.
Treatments are very personalized and dependent on many factors. The cause of illness, organ systems involved, length of illness, and severity of symptoms all have roles to play in the types and intensity of treatments used.
- Intravenous therapies (including high dose nutrients and herbal derivatives)
- Intravenous and topical laser
- Oxidative therapies such as ozone
- Hyperthermia
- Immunotherapies
- Photobiomodulation
- Guided detox
- As well as targeted herbal and pharmaceutical therapies specific to each condition
