{"id":250,"date":"2018-10-21T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2018-10-21T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T12:33:04","slug":"list-of-united-states-mystery-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/list-of-united-states-mystery-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"List of United States Mystery Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a list of diseases endemic to the United States for which there is no known cause nor cure. As of 2018, diagnosis of these diseases is still based on signs &amp; reported symptoms, not on any blood tests or other tests. The list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS)<\/li>\n<li>acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)<\/li>\n<li>irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)<\/li>\n<li>chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these may actually be grouping multiple diseases under one label. For example, IBS comes in two varieties &#8211; IBS-C and IBS-D, the first constipative and the second diarrheal. Although the mechanisms that lead to these diseases&#8217; development may be similar, it seems possible that they are caused by two different mechanisms, either two different viruses or two different genetic predispositions.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, CFS\/ME and AFM, and IBS all have patients who state that the disease began after a bad infection.<\/p>\n<p>Also interestingly, the first reaction of many physicians to these diseases is one of disbelief &#8212; as if a disease not in a textbook does not exist. The second instinct upon seeing a disease that &#8220;does not exist&#8221; is to suspect mental illness &#8212; the patient just needs a psychologist\/therapist. Sometimes this is appropriate &#8212; for example, someone with an unmanaged anxiety disorder may display the symptoms of IBS-D &#8212; their bowels are forever aquiver. But often this is inappropriate &#8212; when someone gets the flu we do not attribute their lack of energy to &#8220;deep-seated emotional issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This list is surely not exhaustive, but it does represent the &#8220;top diseases&#8221; &#8212; those that receive the greatest news coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a list of diseases endemic to the United States for which there is no known cause nor cure. As of 2018, diagnosis of these diseases is still based on signs &amp; reported symptoms, not on any blood tests or other tests. The list: non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) irritable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33],"tags":[27,29,31,25,32,28,30,26,13],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease","category-medicine","tag-acute-flaccid-myelitis","tag-chronic-fatigue-syndrome","tag-diagnosis","tag-disease","tag-infection","tag-irritable-bowel-syndrome","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-non-celiac-gluten-sensitivity","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phmsciences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}