Thiamine deficiency

Introduction: Thiamine deficiency

Thiamine deficiency: Dietary deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine). More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Thiamine deficiency is available below.

Symptoms of Thiamine deficiency

• Symptoms of mild thiamine deficiency:
  • Tiredness
  • Irritability
  • Sleep disturbance
• Beriberi - condition from more severe thiamine deficiency; see symptoms of Beriberi

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Misdiagnosis and Thiamine deficiency

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Causes of Thiamine deficiency

• Inadequate diet
• Malnutrition
• Alcoholism
• Korsakoff syndrome
• Hyperemesis gravidarum

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Treatments for Thiamine deficiency

• High-thiamine diet - good food sources include wholegrain cereals, yeasts, pork, eggs, and nuts.
• Oral thiamine
• Thiamine injections
• See also treatment of beriberi

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Definitions of Thiamine deficiency:

A heat-labile and water-soluble vitamin contained in milk, yeast, synthesized; in the germ and husk of grains, also artificially synthesized; essential for growth; a deficiency of thiamin is associated with beriberi and Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome. SYN aneurine, antiberiberi factor, antiberiberi vitamin, antineuritic factor, antineuritic vitamin, thiamine, vitamin B1. - (Source - Diseases Database)