Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Prevention

To prevent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS; systemic stress intolerance disease), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.

Behavioral risk factors

• Drug use
  • Heroin
  • Opiates or opioids (alfentanil, apomorphine, buprenorphine, codeine, dihydrocodeine, fentanyl, hydromorphone, loperamide, morphine, methadone, nalbuphine, naloxone, naltrexone, oxycodone, pentazocine, pethidine, piritramide, remifentanil, sufentanil, tapentadol, tilidine, tramadol)

Environmental pollution – intoxications (poisonings).

• Chemical substances such as mercury, thus also amalgam.
• Environmental toxins such as lead, cadmium or ozone.