If you’re wondering whether you or your child might have Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), this video helps you recognize key signs. Symptoms vary by age and sometimes show up as just one or two issues.
For children under five, common signs include chronic headaches, abdominal pain, and fatigue lasting days to months. Older children (ages 8–11) may experience prolonged bedwetting, growing pains, cognitive challenges like inattentiveness or ADHD, and more. Adults can have up to 37 symptoms across 13 clusters, which makes diagnosis complex.
You’ll also learn about the role of melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH) in diagnosis, plus how genetic predisposition or exposure to biotoxins from water-damaged buildings or infections can trigger CIRS.
If you suspect CIRS might be affecting your family, this video offers important insights to guide your next steps toward diagnosis and healing.
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Child symptom patterns by age 0:00
We've provided you with a list of symptoms, but in children, it may be just one thing. For children less than five years of age, they may only have one of three things. Chronic headaches, chronic abdominal pain, and chronic fatigue. Now, for fatigue, that's one to two weeks, with the headaches maybe one-to-two months and the belly pain maybe 1-2 months or more. For children between eight and 11, it may be one of six things. Prolonged bedwetting past the age of 6, abdominal pain that lasts more than one to two months, headaches that last one-to-two months.
Fatigue that lasted more that two weeks, prolonged growing pains, and the biggie is cognitive dysfunction like inattentiveness,
Adult symptom clusters and CIRS diagnosis 0:54
ADD, ADHD, autism. For adults, there may be up to 37 symptoms in 13 different clusters. So when we make the diagnosis of chronic inflammatory response syndrome, that hormone called melanocyte stimulating hormone has gone down below 35. Now, if you don't have the genetic predisposition, it means that your body's just been overwhelmed by what's inside the interior of a water damaged building, or you may have an infection that produces a biotoxin.
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