What Is Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome?

Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, or CIRS, occurs when a genetically predisposed person encounters a biotoxin that they are unable to eliminate.

Normally, when the body encounters a toxin, our bodies launch an immune reaction that identifies and eliminates the toxin by creating specialized response units called antibodies. For people with CIRS, the innate immune system will recognize the presence of a biotoxin but the adaptive immune system will fail to create the antibodies needed to remove the biotoxin. The inflammation created by the innate immune response will recycle within the body and cause many downstream symptoms in multiple systems.

Unlike other immunity disorders that are characterized by an inappropriate adaptive immune response, CIRS cannot be identified by traditional autoimmune blood markers like anti-nuclear antibodies or rheumatoid factor. Since people suffering from CIRS have a wide variety of symptoms, they are often misdiagnosed or left untreated.

Biotoxins

Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome is sometimes called “mold illness” because 80% of CIRS cases are caused by chronic exposure to…