List of questionable diseases

This is a list of diseases and diagnoses that are considered questionable or rejected by many in the medical profession. Some are diagnosed using unvalidated or disputed diagnostic techniques such as applied kinesiology. Most purported symptoms are vague, generic, nonspecific, and generally categorised as "symptoms of life".^[1]

• Adrenal fatigue^[2]
• Autistic enterocolitis
• Candida overgrowth^[3]
• Chronic Lyme disease^[4]
• Electromagnetic hypersensitivity^[5]
• Heavy legs^[6]
• Leaky gut syndrome
• Morgellons^[7]
• Multiple chemical sensitivity
• Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, unless medically diagnosed^[8]
• Wind turbine syndrome^[9]
• Wilson's temperature syndrome, also called Wilson's thyroid syndrome. Not to be confused with Wilson's disease.

See also

• List of fictional diseases
• List of questionable diagnostic tests
• Somatization

References

1. Naturopathy vs. Science: Fake Diseases, Scott Gavura, Science Based Medicine
2. Addison's syndrome, Mayo Clinic
3. We All Have Candida (And it's OK!) - Debunking claims of yeast overgrowth.
4. No, you do not have chronic Lyme disease
5. Better Call Saul: is electromagnetic hypersensitivity a real health risk?
6. Jane, Emma (2008-12-13). "Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | A curiously French complaint". BBC News. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
7. Joni Mitchell's Mysterious Skin Disease: What Causes Morgellons?
8. Are You Really Gluten-Intolerant? Maybe Not.
9. Wind Farm Syndrome Is the Fake Illness That Science Can't Kill