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Glandular Fever
(infectious mononucleosis)

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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. 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. 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 an on-going personalised eating and lifestyle service to support and advise you as you try and get back on track again. If you need help to manage your energies then this would be a very useful source of help.

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.) .
  • pins and needles
  • not feeling all there

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 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 above is run in a very personal and individualised way and is highly recommended if you are serious in really trying everything to encourage your body to get back on track. After filling out a glandular fever health questionnaire, Gina offers you some phone times to ring her via Skype (free internet telephony) or phone, so she can talk further with you and asess what type of help may be beneficial. This initial service is free but if she feels she would be able to help you (which she can in many cases) she will offer her services. Her premium glandular fever help service includes an individually designed recommendations report, put together by Gina (around 30-40 pages of helpful and practical eating and lifestyle suggestions to follow) and also includes follow up phone and e-mail support for up to 2 years, where you can e-mail her with updates, questions, more help, pick her brains etc. She is very knowledgable in this area, as someone who has personally suffered for many years with on-going glandular fever realted probelms and for the last 10 years has worked as a nutritional therapist specialising in helping others to  cope with the underlying fatigue amd recurrent symptoms associated with glandula fever. She is extremely positive and supportive and gets some great feedback from many of the people she helps. The eating help she recommends is not extreme and once you get in to it is very easy to follow. She explains why she recommends including and avoiding certain things and draws on much of the feedback she gets from those she has worked with over the last 8 years as well as through her own experience . . . she has now helped nearly 1000 individuals who have struggled with glandular fever! She helps many current and post glandular fever sufferers all over the world and keen to continue supporting as many as she can. The other two plus points in her favour are: she has a great empathy with the situation you may find yourself in as she has gone through this herself and she is a very keen sportsperson and understands those 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. As well as studying and qualifying in nutrition as a nutritional therapist and having a good knowledge of other complimentary therapies, Gina has a bachelor honours degree in sports science.

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