Abstract
We describe four Italian adolescents in whom a persistent, debilitating fatigue appeared after therapeutic ingestion of products containingl-tryptophan and subsequent to the development of a transient rise in eosinophil count and severe myalgia (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome-EMS). Their clinical picture was indistinguishable from that of the socalled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A chronic fatigue may occur after diverse triggering agents and it represents the peculiar clinical evolution of these four paediatric cases of EMS.
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Abbreviations
- CFS :
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- EMS :
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Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome
- ANA :
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antinuclear antibodies
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Priori, R., Conti, F., Luan, F.L. et al. Chronic fatigue: A peculiar evolution of Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome following treatment withl-tryptophan in four Italian adolescents. Eur J Pediatr 153, 344–346 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956416
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