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Suggest Remedy For Chronic Fatigue And EBV Infection

Posted on Mon, 23 Feb 2015

Question: i recently saw an infectious doctor here she drew new labs and i have attached them to you, she labeled me with chronic ebv said there was no cure and said i could check with someone speacilizing in chronic fatigue. Another doctor said I have nothing to worry about on the ebv he said everyone has that and i just need hormoral therapy treatment, I also attached my last thyroid and hormone labs. Do you have any opinion? Do you thing the ebv is anything to worry about or is just hormoral deficency?

Answered by Dr. Arun (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Please upload report....

Detailed Answer:
Hello dear XXXX,

Thank you for asking me a personal query.

I got your question but I don't see reports attached here. If you can please provide me reports, I would be able to understand and address your concern better. You can use the upload button on your screen to upload the report

Thank you.
Dr Arun Tank
Infectious Disease specialist.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad

Follow up: Dr. Arun (2 hours later)

Hi, I have provided some attachments. Please review them.

Answered by Dr. Arun (10 hours later)

Brief Answer:
You are having Chronic EBV infection....

Detailed Answer:
Hello dear XXXX,

I have reviewed all your report.

Yes I agree with your first Doctor stating that you have chronic Epstein Barr virus infection. There is no treatment for it. You can only consult to chronic fatigue disease specialist they can help you.

You do not have any hormonal abonormality, all your reports are normal and there is nothing abnormal.

You can ask me for further clarification.

Thank you,
Dr Arun Tank
Infectious disease specialist.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj

Follow up: Dr. Arun (1 hour later)

how does the ebv virus work? Does symptoms get worse or stay the same does it every go away? Have read information about certain cancers and diseases how can you rule out those questions?

Thank you
Live by Faith XXXXXXX XXXXXXX

Answered by Dr. Arun (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Please find answer below

Detailed Answer:
Hi dear XXXX,

EBV or Epstein Barr virus infection causes variety of the disease.

In its mild form it can cause glandular fever or infectious mono nucleosis or kissing disease is caused by this virus. It is spread by droplets of the saliva. Virus can grown in B- lymphocyte and in epithelium cells of the pharynx and larynx. This infections is self limited and can be cured without any treatment.

Only some cases can convert in to the chronic one as you are having. in such cases prognosis is poor. Antiviral treatment even wont respond.

It can cause variety of other disease some of this I am mentioning below.

Infectious mononucleosis
Burkitt's lymphoma
Hodgkin's disease
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Hepatitis(Epstein-Barr virus)
Duncan's syndrome

Burkitt's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, Nasopharyngeal carcinoma are the type of malignancy which is caused by the chronic EBV infection.

You can ask me further details here.

Thank you,
Dr Arun Tank

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju