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Letter: Figuring out chronic fatigue is never easy (2)

Published 28 September 2022

From Stephanie Woodcock, Carnon Downs, Cornwall, UK

An anti-inflammatory strategy to tackle fatigue might be risky in some cases. Maybe the body is right and is doing its best to counter a very clever pathogen that has so far eluded discovery.

I acknowledge that short-term treatment to defuse major inflammation must sometimes be done. However, trying to negate the body’s attempt to defend itself while it faces a little-understood chronic illness, simply by relying on the presumption that it is wrong, could be a mistake.

Issue no. 3406 published 1 October 2022

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