Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also called ME, is now the second most common reason for long term absence from school. And women are more likely to suffer than men, particularly in adolescence. But how do you cope when it strikes twice in the same family? Author Rachel Anderson has written a fictionalised account of the effect of the illness on a strong family unit.
Her new book This Strange New Life is based on her own experience of caring for two sons who developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at the same time during the 1990s when many doctors doubted the condition even existed.
So is it hereditary? Dr Leslie Findley, Clinical Director of the National ME Centre joins Jenni to discuss the latest research.
This Strange New Life by Rachel Anderson, Oxford University Press, ISBN:0192753363
