CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link: Hidden Viruses, Allergies, and Uncommon Fatigue/Pain Disorders [Hardcover]

Roberto Patarca Montero (Author), R. Bruce Duncan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789010720 | ISBN-13: 978-0789010728 | Publication Date: February 15, 2001 | Edition: 1

Explore newly discovered causes of and treatment options for CFIDS and fibromyalgia!

CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link describes innovative therapies and tests for hidden viral (microbial) and allergic causes of chronic functional and “difficult to treat” multiple-cause illnesses. This valuable book will help allergists, physicians working with fibromyalgia and functional illnesses, and physiotherapists correctly diagnose and treat patients.

A response to the increasing number of people in the Western world suffering from unexplained symptoms and disabilities including food intolerances, migraines, asthma, and unexplained stress and fatigue (which are mostly controlled by symptom-suppressing drugs), CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link is the first book about health to offer explanations of these disorders and low-cost and effective treatments for these mystery illnesses.

CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link will introduce you to and/or instruct you in:

• the Virus Allergy Identikit© for identifying symptoms and illnesses
• the Virus Allergy Scorecard for untreatable “all-in-the-mind” symptoms
• symptoms and sensations of provocative testing
• adding Latency Therapy to your practice
• the latest diagnosis and therapy methods
• the Recipe Index and exclusion menus
• detoxing and therapeutic saunas

Complete with directions for successful latency therapy to overcome health problems, lifestyle changes that will help fight these illnesses, and special recipes to alleviate certain conditions, CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link is an essential reference that will give you new options for patients who suffer from “difficult to diagnose” disorders.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 330 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (February 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789010720
• ISBN-13: 978-0789010728
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,325,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly researched, poorly written, poorly edited, March 6, 2001

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This review is from: CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link: Hidden Viruses, Allergies, and Uncommon Fatigue/Pain Disorders (Paperback)

This book is awful! The author's style is impossibly difficult to read, the information presented is not sourced or footnoted adequately, and the editing is terrible. I would not recommend this book to anyone, but especially not to a layperson with CIFDS looking for help and information. Save your money and spend it on something else.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Incomprehensible..., November 20, 2009

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e. verrillo (williamsburg, ma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link: Hidden Viruses, Allergies, and Uncommon Fatigue/Pain Disorders (Hardcover)

There is a wealth of information in this book, which I am sure would be useful if only we could understand it. Duncan's approach to writing seems to be "everything and the kitchen sink." Case studies, patient quotes, observations, "surmises", treatments, and charts are all thrown together willy-nilly. It was a real chore to wade through the chaos. From what I could gather, Bruce Duncan is proposing to treat ME/CFS with a combination of food elimination diets, detox programs, avoidance of toxins and allergens, allergy desensitization, and viral (and protozoal) desensitization through provocation/neutralization.

On the whole, there isn't anything new in this approach. Detox programs, avoidance, elimination diets, and provocation/neutralization are all standard "alternative" fare. What intrigued me was the use of provocation/neutralization techniques for latent viruses. Can you really treat viral reactivation of HHV6, EBV, etc. with sublingual drops? Unfortunately, Duncan's "explanation" raised more questions than he answered. (How can you treat someone with "latency" to dengue fever if they have never had it?) Although I found the concept of treating latent infections as if they were allergies interesting, I regret to say that after finishing this book I was as unenlightened as when I started it.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Provides new therapy for chronic functional illnesses, May 20, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, and the Virus-Allergy Link: Hidden Viruses, Allergies, and Uncommon Fatigue/Pain Disorders (Paperback)

CFIDS, Fibromyalgia, And The Virus-Allergy Link provides new therapy for chronic functional illnesses, offering explanations of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue disorders and providing both a set of tests for hidden viral and allergic causes of these conditions and treatment options. Any who suffer from chronic fatigue will welcome this different approach and theory.