| pubmed-article:8033924 | pubmed:abstractText | We describe four Italian adolescents in whom a persistent, debilitating fatigue appeared after therapeutic ingestion of products containing L-tryptophan and subsequent to the development of a transient rise in eosinophil count and severe myalgia (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome-EMS). Their clinical picture was indistinguishable from that of the so-called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A chronic fatigue may occur after diverse triggering agents and its represents the peculiar clinical evolution of these four paediatric cases of EMS. | lld:pubmed |
