Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Children and Young People
(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of (1) children, and (2) young people, who have been diagnosed as having myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
This question was answered on 21st March 2022
No specific assessment has been made. However, recent data from the UK Biobank estimates that there are over 240,000 adults aged between 40 and 69 years old in England with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The number of children and young people diagnosed with ME is unknown.