Skin Offers Clues to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Skin Offers Clues to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

New Approach May Make It Easier to Diagnose Complicated Disorder

The long sought-after physical evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

may be found in the skin, according to a new research.

The study suggests that differences in skin temperature and electrical

activity may provide a new way to identify the potentially disabling

disorder. CFS causes a variety of common symptoms, such as fever, fatigue,

sore throat, headache, muscle weakness, pain, and sleep disturbances, which

makes it hard to distinguish it from other ailments.

Researchers estimate that chronic fatigue syndrome affects between 0.5% and

3% of the population...

Skin temperatures were also much higher among those with chronic fatigue

syndrome than in the other two groups...