Beriberi Prevention Tips
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:10 Written by fencze Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:10
Beriberi Prevention Tips
Alternative Names:
Deficit of thiamine,vitamin B1
Causes, consequences and risk factors:
There are two major events of the lack of thiamine: Cardiovascular disease (Beriberiwet) and diseases of the nervous system ( “dry Beriberi syndrome and Wernicke-Korsakoff). Beriberi is dry somewhat poorly chosen, since the two species are often characterized by the alcohol abuse.
The symptoms of dryness comprennent beriberiSans pain, tingling or loss of receiverindung in the hands and feet (perifericoneuropatía), muscle atrophy and loss of function or paralysis of the lower extremities, and possibly damage the brain and death.
Wet Beriberi is characterized by swelling (edema), increased heart rate (tachycardia), Lungenstauung and the expansion of the heart with congestive heart failure.
Beriberi has become very rare in the United States because most foods are fortified with vitamins, which means that a normal diet contains sufficient amounts of thiamine.
Accordingly, now Beriberi occurs mainly in patients who abuse alcohol, because drinking can lead to malnutrition and poor access to and storage of thiamine. This is the cause of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, alcohol on the brain injury affectant of language and thought.
Beriberi ouconcerts in infants fed when inside the mother to a lack ofimport of thiamine. It can also infants fed formulas with the inadequate thiamine supplements unusual.
Other risk Beriberi include pacientescion of dialysis in patients with high doses of diuretics, and the people in developing countries with low food consume rice.
The Symptomedes nervous system by the degeneration of the fibreset the isolation of the nerves (myelin). Heart failure is the commonest cause of deaths among persons with beri
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