Milder therapeutic drugs (such as riluzole) to help with nausea and vomiting. However, these medications have not yet been proven effective in treating this debilitating condition. A combination of several common antibiotics has shown success against severe cases but is rarely used for patients who do well on multiple classes," said Dr Richard Weisberg at University College London's Wellcome Trust Surgical Centre, where the research was carried out alongside Professor Nick Brown of Edinburgh University's School Of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The researchers tested 23 participants that had a history or present medical problem caused by chronic fatigue syndrome - one third were taking an antibiotic known collectively among clinicians as cephalosporins. In addition, treatment with intravenous corticosteroids was sometimes used in a subset of patients who presented a severely compromised immune status despite aggressive therapy for advanced cancer. The authors conclude t...