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MONONUCLEOSIS - INFECTOUS MONONUCLEOSIS - MONO - EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS - GLANDULAR FEVER BACKGROUND

When I started working full time, I really started to suffer again with recurrent bouts of mononucleosis symptoms again. Eventually I had to stop working in my current job, as I was not able to sustain energy levels needed to work effectively.

At this time I had begun reading up in scientific / medical journals about Glandular Fever and its post viral fatigue effects on the body, as well as looking for theories from more complimentary and alternative medicine. I had already started looking at what I was eating, as I felt that this somehow played a key part in how I felt from day to day. Food, health, fitness and human biology had always been of interest to myself as a young girl anyway. I decided to begin to study effects of food and nutrition in more detail, eventually looking at it from a more holistic viewpoint (i.e. from a more complimentary / alternative approach) rather than a traditional dietetic viewpoint i.e. not looking at just calories and the major food groups of protein, carbohydrates and fats but looking at the effects of foods and its properties on general health and energy levels.

At 29, I qualified as a Nutritional therapist / consultant, having studied for over 6 years in Nutritional therapy. I then began to plan how I would specialise in trying to help others manage their health and energy levels after glandular fever (having read in a number of studies that it is thought that 20% of those who have glandular fever never totally regain the level of health they had before the illness) - particularly, it would seem, if the liver was involved during the acute stage or if the epsiode of glandular fever was particularly harsh.

At 37, I have now had my web site up and running for 8 years and work full time, specialising in helping those who search out my help and advice via this site. Many of you are keen sports people (some competing at a high level), many of you are teenage girls, many are young men in their 20's trying to establish a career which has been hindered by post glandular fever troubles, and an increasing number of you are in your 30's with young children. I also have more and more older individuals coming through to me, and one or two much younger children. All, it seems, however have come down with this illness after a period of some considerable stress . . . too much sports training whilst still growing, too much work stress, school problems, relationship problems (divorce /separation), deaths in the family, other compounding problems and pressures etc etc.

This is the damning effect glandular fever can have on the body.