Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Diagnosing CIRS

28 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains how a history of exposure to biotoxins is essential to diagnosing Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). He emphasizes that exposure may be obvious (acute, heavy mold exposure) or subtle/long-term (years in a moldy residence or a tick bite), and clinicians often need to probe patient history to uncover triggering exposures.

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So how does one's history of exposure to biotoxins play a critical role in diagnosing sirs? I mean, there has to be exposure. I mean, by definition, there's. There's an exposure. So. And this is where it gets kind of tricky, because exposure could be. I was in college for, you know, four years. There were patients, actually, with uva. He was in college for four years. The house, who grew up four years had, you know, mold issues. Didn't know, got a tick bite, and that triggered everything. So a lot of times, you have to kind of go a little deeper and dig a little deeper, but there's that exposure. And sometimes it's a slow, long exposure, and sometimes it's like, hey, I went in this really super moldy place, and a month. And I started feeling foggy.