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Glandular Fever
(infectious mononucleosis)

http://www.glandularfever.me.uk/glandular_feversend a summary of your glandular fever health history here 

 

Caused by the Epstein barr virus (E.B.V), glandular fever's correct name is infectious mononucleosis. In the United States and Canada it is known as mononucleosis or mono. Glandular Fever is also known, less commonly as Pfeiffer's Disease. If the fatigue continues, after glandular fever, for 6 months or more, the scenario is often reffered to as post viral fatigue syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome. On-going post glandular fever troubles can and do occur in a number of cases. The glandular fever help services link is a very useful one if this is your problem. It offers a service to support and advise you as you try and get back on track again. 

Glandular Fever Help Services could be worth contacting if any of the below are indicated:

  • you need practical help and support to manage your energies after glandular fever (mono)
  • you continue to suffer relapses and bad bouts of glandular fever symptoms (even when blood tests show negative for g.fever)
  • you have an actual diagnosed recurrence of glandular fever (this can happen in some cases)
  • you want to make sure you are doing everything you can in recovery from glandular fever.

Acute symptoms of glandular fever (in the early stages):

  • swollen ulcerated tonsils (white blobs on the tonsils)
  • sore throat
  • enlarged spleen
  • mild liver damage, sometimes leading to jaundice
  • high fever
  • excessive fatigue
  • enlarged lymp glands in the armpits,  neck and groin

Most of the acute glandular fever/ infectious mononucleosis symptoms disappear after a few weeks.
Rest for at least a month is ideal. 
Symptoms can continue, on an off, for a few months, but in some cases much longer.
In a number of cases, 100% health and energy levels are not regained afterwards. This may happen when the body is pushed too early or is constantly under stress through recovery. Often there are more on-going glandular fever tiredness problems and bad bouts of ill health in cases where the liver was affected in some way during the acute illness

Chronic and on-going glandular fever symptoms / problems:

  • fatigue not satisfied by sleep. 
  • recurrent tonsillitis
  • chronic sore throat and swollen lymp glands in the neck. 
  • aches and pains in the limbs. 
  • brain fag - not being able to find the right words.
  • lack of concentration
  • depression (feeling very low)
  • deep lethargy
  • not being able to stand lots of noise, people or strong smells (perfume, cleaning materials etc.) .
  • not feeling all there
  • digestive inbalance - bloating and pain often cited in lower abdomen.

The level of energy can fluctuates so that a few good days and weeks may be followed by energy slumps, fatigue, and bad bouts of glandular fever symptoms.  Delayed reaction  fatigue is very common in these cases where exercise, excitement and/or stress brings on the extreme fatigue a few days after the event.

Many young sports people suffer with glandular fever and struggle afterwards, see glandular fever in the news

You can manage to control post glandular fever health with good eating and lifestyle management. Some good on-going practical support and advice is offered by Gina Burton's:

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TREATMENT

Unlike claims to the contrary, there are no miracle quick fix treatment cures for chronic glandular fever (on-going glandular fever post viral tiredness problems). The support and advice service (Glandular Fever Help Services) is run by Gina Burton. She tries to help as many people as possible with the trials and tribulations of glandular fever recovery and the symptoms which can hang around afterwards.

New Service as from Summer 2010:
A new service is being trialled, so more people can receive Gina's advice and recommendations.
After sending a summary of your glandular fever history, Gina will reply with some initial comments, a glandular fever health questionnaire to complete, and more info as to the level of help she can provide.
On checking through your details and making sure that her recommendations would be appropriate in your particular case, Gina will send out a full set of eating, lifestyle and supplement recommendations. She will also put together a personal pointers document to help you on your way as you work with her recommendations.
Gina does not charge directly for this service (for her time and effort in putting everything together for you, e-mailing replies, comments, assessments etc) but does ask for a small contribution / donation / admin fee towards the upkeep of her Glandular Fever Help website and Services (between £10 and £20, depending on the level of help needed). 
This is a new addition to her help service, so please support her with this new venture as it will no doubt be very time-consuming. She is extremely keen to help as many as people as possible and feels that this could be a successful way forward.

* After receiving your full set of recommendations, Gina gives you the option of upgrading to her next level of support . . .offering one-to-one advice, further direction and on-going help for as long as you wish. For this she charges a consultancy fee of £50.

 http://www.glandularfever.me.uk/glandular_feverClick here if you would like to send Gina a summary of your glandular fever history, for her initial comments

Gina has helped over 1000 glandular fever sufferers all over the world, since she started her Glandular Fever Help Services in 1998.

She has a great empathy with the frustrating situation you find yourself in, having gone through it all herself. She has always been a very keen sportsperson and therefore understands the frustrations suffered by many youngsters and young adults who struggle with this illness when it hits them, in their competitive sports years. It is very common for young, bright and talented sports competitors to come down with glandular fever. However over the last few years many older people have come through to Gina for advice. As well as studying and qualifying as a nutritional therapist (originally to see if she could start to help herself with post glandular fever toubles) and having a good knowledge of other complimentary therapies, Gina has a bachelor honours degree in sports science.

 
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