Fibromyalgia and Nutrition

Fibromyalgia, which has unknown etiology and medical treatment, affects quality of life because of chronic widespread pain condition and many of symptoms that comes with it such as chronic fatigue, depression, sleep disorders, cognitive dysfunction significantly. some of applications developed for treatment of patients are aerobic exercises, cognitive behavioral therapy, patient training, acupuncture, antidepressant, dietary changes and supplements. after increase of studies supporting hypothesis that oxidative stress plays an active role in etiology of fibromyalgia, improvement of dietary antioxidant content was considered. studies that evaluate effects of nutritional status in patients with symptoms are among issues of current researches. in this review, nutritional status of fibromyalgia patients and effects of dietary changes on symptoms of the disease had been compiled.