Toxic Exposures
Have you become ill after toxic exposure?
Exposures to toxins such as mold in water-damaged environments, tickborne pathogens, heavy metals, electromagnetic frequencies, and others can cause the immune system to go haywire, resulting in chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS). Toxic exposures can lead to a wide range of medical symptoms and excessive inflammation affecting various organ systems in the body, including the brain.
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Diagnosis of toxin-related illness involves a combination of exposure history, symptoms, laboratory tests, and clinical improvement criteria.
Do you have any of these problems?
Following a toxic exposure, these symptoms could be signs of chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS).
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Functional medicine or integrative medicine clinicians are often knowledgeable about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of CIRS and other disorders due to toxic exposure.
Your brain volume could tell the story.
Neurophysiological and brain imaging measures, including MRI, also have revealed brain abnormalities in patients exposed to mold and other toxins that may be related to immune hyperreactivity. Multiple studies have demonstrated abnormal enlargement in several regions of the brains of mold patients. Additionally, untreated patients with mold-related illness tend to exhibit more abnormal enlargement as compared to treated individuals, suggesting that treatment may lead to normalization of brain volume. NeuroQuant and NeuroGage brain volume analyses of hundreds of mold patients generally support these research findings.
