Why stretch things to something so obscure. And I cannot honestly say that would make sense in terms of POT either. POTS with an S seems to me a...
Where does that come from? It looks like disinformation - talking about spicy foods and stress. And talking of 'what triggers mastocytosis'...
Mastocytosis is something quite different, where there is evidence of an abnormal clonal expansion of mast cells - almost like a leukaemia. It is...
I don't think it is that much of a puzzle. Clinics taking people with ME/CFS have often been run by allergists. Stephen Holgate was I think...
Yes but that is basically saying that the other predisposing factor is what causes the problem because the antibodies are just part of the normal...
Antibody titres in individual people vary widely. Lots of normal people, maybe all, have some low levels of autoantibodies and a few have high...
That is an interesting observation but in what sense can we say PEM causes something? PEM is just some worsened, or wider spectrum of, symptoms....
The diagnosis of hEDS was based on some previous doctor having said stand recorded it as a code. Since doctors will diagnose hEDS in anything from...
A causal relationship between POT, whether in Long Covid or not, and vasoactive autoantibodies is very far fetched. The antibodies in question...
If the saline was infused in such a way as to maintain constant circulatory volume then it might not tell us anything, though.
I do not see patients with ME/CFS myself but I have talked many times with people who have seen hundreds of patients in a severe relapse -...
I agree with Trish that very severe ME/CFS is the appropriate label. There does not appear to be any structural or permanent damage to tissue but...
That always used to be the main point of specialist clinics - to see what the diagnosis actually was! The idea that you can only refer patients...
Strawberry belongs to rosaceae rather than solanaceae. I don't know of any reason why either family should particularly lead to a histamine...
But are they? What I see is pressure to expand the same old model of 'multidisciplinary care in the community'.
I think it is simpler. The ICC criteria are just made up on the basis of various bees that the committee members had in their bonnets at the time....
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I am quite sure there is reality, but we can only know it and describe it in terms of maths and our internal representational language. Why would...
Right, and all quantitative information is known to us in qualia terms. If I read 7.3 on my pressure gauge that 7.3 is known to me through qualia...
I have lost the plot of what you are trying to argue ion the last post @poetinsf . I have been saying that qualia are encoded in inputs to...
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