Risk Factors

Risk factors are things that will worsen the illness and include the following:

• doing too much physically and mentally, even socially or lurching between being over and under active
• stressful situations of any kind
• chemical exposures of many kinds - from paint to hairspray and certainly pesticides
• eating unhealthily - drinking alcohol is probably not particularly helpful although thinning the blood may be helpful
• allergies and sensitivities from foods to house dust
• perhaps even lack of sunlight