fatigue
Sign in to saveFatigue is a state of being without energy for a prolonged period of time. Fatigue is used in two contexts: in the medical sense, and in the sense of normal tiredness.
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Fatigue is a prolonged state of lacking energy that can last for an extended period of time. It's an important concept in both medicine and everyday life, as it can refer to either a clinical condition or the normal tiredness we all experience.
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- Medical condition.name
- Fatigue
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Exhaustion, weariness, tiredness, lethargy, listlessness
- Medical condition.image
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- Medical condition.caption
- Artistic representation of ME/CFS
- Medical condition.treatment
- Avoid known stressors and unhealthy habits (drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking), healthy diet, exercise regularly, medication, hydration, and vitamins
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60 sectionsContents
- Definition
- Terminology
- Comparison with other terms
- Tiredness
- Exhaustion
- Sleepiness
- Classification
- ICD-11
- Presentation
- Common features
- Differentiating features
- Causes
- Adverse life events
- Drug use
- Digital screen use
- Sleep disturbance
- Medications
- Association with diseases and illnesses
- Physical diseases
- Mental illnesses
- Other
- Primary vs. secondary
- Obesity
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Scientifically unsupported causes
- Mechanisms
- Inflammation
- Reduced brain connectivity
- Damage to brain white matter
- Heat shock proteins
- Measurement
- Diagnosis
- Diagnosis guidance
- Classification
- By type
- Uni- or multi-dimensional
- Physical
- Neurological fatigue
- By timescale
- By effect
- WHO classification
- Treatment and management
- Cessation of medications causing fatigue
- Medications to treat fatigue
- Mental health tools
- Other approaches
- Avoidance of body heat
- Improved sleep
- Intermittent fasting
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- Qigong and Tai Chi
- Approaches to managing fatigue
- Prevalence
- Possible purposes of fatigue
- Body resource management purposes
- Evolutionary purposes
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Fatigue is a state of being without energy for a prolonged period of time. Fatigue is used in two contexts: in the medical sense, and in the sense of normal tiredness.
In the medical sense, fatigue is seen as a symptom, and is sometimes associated with medical conditions including autoimmune disease, organ failure, mood disorders, heart disease, infectious diseases, and post-infectious-disease states. However, fatigue is complex and in up to a third of primary care cases no medical or psychiatric diagnosis is found.