21. Diagnosing Beriberi In Emergency Situations Diagnosing beriberi in Emergency Situations. by Prof Mike Golden, AberdeenUniversity. The prevalence of beriberi was estimated at 30%. http://www.ennonline.net/fex/01/fa18.html

Diagnosing Beriberi in Emergency Situations by Prof Mike Golden, Aberdeen University. This piece will be most useful to medical professionals - doctors and nurses. However, the article may also be useful for non specialists who need to communicate with medical personal about this deficiency disease. In some places medical terms have been simply explained for the non-specialist. Recently the NGO community in West Africa learned of an outbreak of beriberi in an area with severe nutritional deprivation. The diagnosis had been based upon the presence of epidemic oedema found during a nutritional survey. The survey team included experienced, doctors. The prevalence of beriberi was estimated at 30%. I accompanied an ACF team working in the area to examine these patients. The only clinical feature that these patients had that resembled beriberi was the oedema. The patients had 'famine oedema' which is the same as adult kwashiorkor. In the absence of diagnostic laboratories, the diagnosis of nutritional deficiency diseases depends upon: a high index of suspicion;

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1Up Health Beriberi Alternative Medicine Clinical Trials ... Health Topics A-Z Search 1Up Health Beriberi Information Beriberi Causes, Incidence, and Risk Factors Alternative names : Thiamine deficiency, Vitamin B1 deficiency Definition : Beriberi is a vitamin deficiency disease, caused by inadequate bodily stores of thiamine , (Vitamin B1). It can damage the heart and nervous system. Causes, Incidence, and Risk Factors There are two major manifestations of thiamine deficiency: cardiovascular disease (wet beriberi) and nervous system disease ("dry beriberi" and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome). Dry beriberi is somewhat of a misnomer because both types are most often caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Symptoms of dry beriberi include pain, tingling, or loss of sensation in hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy), muscle wasting with loss of function or paralysis of the lower extremities, and potentially brain damage and death. Wet beriberi is characterized by swelling (edema), increased heart rate (tachycardia), lung congestion, and enlarged heart related to congestive heart failure. Beriberi has become very rare in the United States because most foods are now vitamin-enriched, which means that a normal diet contains adequate amounts of

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24. Description Of Beriberi of beriberi The reflexes. The muscle group involved seems tobe related to the kind of work an individual with beriberi does....... http://www.asmusa.org/memonly/asmnews/dec98/beripop.html

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25. ASM News Vol 64, Num 12, December 1998, Christian Eijman: Early Nobel Winner For Christian Eijman Early Nobel Winner for beriberi Research. Furthermore, henoted that the incidence of beriberi varied greatly from year to year. http://www.asmusa.org/memonly/asmnews/dec98/feature2.html

Article Links: Description of Beriberi Figure 1 Figure 2 Links to Other ASM Pages: Table of Contents ASM News Issues Christian Eijman: Early Nobel Winner for Beriberi Research Although searching for an infectious agent, this bacteriologist linked beriberi with dietary deficiency Jan Verhoef Christiaan Eijkman traveled to Berlin in 1885 to meet Robert Koch and learn some elementary bacteriological techniques in his laboratory. While there, he went to Café Bauer and, while seeking a Dutch newspaper, met two of his countrymen from Utrecht University-Cornelis Winkler, a neurologist, and Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing, a professor of pathology. Financial Hardships Shaped Eijkman's Early Career The seventh of ten children, Christiaan Eijkman was born on 11 August 1858 in the rural village of Nijkerk, in the eastern-central part of the Netherlands. His father, a schoolmaster, ran a boarding school at the time, but soon moved the family closer to Amsterdam. Early on, Eijkman proved to be an exceptionally bright youngster who showed a desire to study medicine. However, because funds were limited, he signed up with the colonial army as a way of obtaining his medical training, negotiating an agreement with the Department of War to pay the bill for his training in exchange for his services in the army in the Dutch East Indies. After finishing his medical studies, he also obtained a doctoral degree in physiology; the title of his thesis was "Polarization in the Nervous System" (Over Polarisatie in de Zenuwen).

26. Beriberi beriberi. Definition beriberi is a vitamin deficiency disease, causedby inadequate bodily stores of thiamine, (Vitamin B1). It http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/000339.htm

Disease Injury Nutrition Poison ... Prevention Beriberi Definition: Beriberi is a vitamin deficiency disease, caused by inadequate bodily stores of thiamine , (Vitamin B1). It can damage the heart and nervous system. Alternative Names: Thiamine deficiency; Vitamin B1 deficiency Causes, incidence, and risk factors: There are two major manifestations of thiamine deficiency: cardiovascular disease (wet beriberi) and nervous system disease ("dry beriberi" and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome). Dry beriberi is somewhat of a misnomer because both types are most often caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Symptoms of dry beriberi include pain, tingling, or loss of sensation in hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy), muscle wasting with loss of function or paralysis of the lower extremities, and potentially brain damage and death. Wet beriberi is characterized by swelling (edema), increased heart rate (tachycardia), lung congestion, and enlarged heart related to congestive heart failure. Beriberi has become very rare in the United States because most foods are now vitamin-enriched, which means that a normal diet contains adequate amounts of thiamine As a result, beriberi now occurs primarily in patients who abuse alcohol, because drinking heavily can lead to malnutrition and poor absorption and storage of thiamine. This is the cause of "wet brain" or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which is alcohol-related brain damage affecting language and thinking.

27. Beriberi beriberi,. In infants breastfed by mothers who are deficient in thiamine,beriberi may lead to rapidly progressing heart failure. http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/64_72.html

28. Beriberi encyclopediaEncyclopedia beriberi, ber'Eber'E Pronunciation Key.beriberi , deficiency disease occurring when the human body has http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0807167.html

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30. Beriberi Translate this page beriberi. Dependiendo de los síntomas que predominen en el cuadroclínico, puede dividirse al beriberi en • beriberi seco el http://www.latinsalud.com/Temas/beriberi.htm

Home Beriberi Tratamiento Las principales fuentes de tiamina son los cereales integrales, germen de trigo, avellanas, soja, carne de ternera y de cerdo. Las principales fuentes de tiamina son los cereales integrales, germen de trigo, avellanas, soja, carne de ternera y de cerdo. Beriberi seco Tratamiento Buscar en LatinSalud Palabra: Vitaminas Escorbuto info@alburgsa.com

31. Beriberi Click Here! beriberi Remedy. Characteristics Symptoms. Patient Worse by. Much yawningand stretching. beriberi. Irresistible desire to wander from home at night. http://www.stormloader.com/users/saibabaservs/Beriberi.htm

Beriberi Remedy Characteristics Symptoms Patient Worse by Patient Better by Elaterium Officinarum Violent vomiting and purging, especially if the evacuations are copious and watery. It is a Certain forms of dropsy Much yawning and stretching Beriberi Irresistible desire to wander from home at night Effects of damp weather Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhœa ; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep Gouty pain in great toes Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhœa Skin smarts, stings, and burns; dropsical Skin, orange color Lathyrus Reflexes always increased Beriberi Much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power Sleepy, constant yawning Tips of fingers numb Tremulous, tottering gait Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait Knees knock against each other when walking Cramps in legs worse cold, and cold fee Cannot extend or cross legs when sitting Gluteal muscles and lower limbs emaciated Legs blue; swollen, if hanging down Stiffness and lameness of ankles and knees, toe do not leave the floor, heels do not touch floor, Muscles of calves very tense

32. Beriberi of this Page Home Recent Changes Search the Swiki Help Guide beriberi.Edit beriberi here. History of References Link to this Page. http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu/mindy/955

Beriberi Edit Beriberi here. History of References Link to this Page Fall 2002 HPS/BIOL 3751 Project topics last edited on 5 December 2002 at 12:36:17 pm by bh107-02.che.gatech.edu

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History of Beriberi This document contains a history of this page, from the current version to the earliest one available. Version Name User Date Time current Beriberi fhdisspci.biology.gatech.edu 17 October 2002 10:18:48 am Beriberi fhdisspci.biology.gatech.edu 17 October 2002 10:15:42 am Beriberi www.forsyth.public.lib.ga.us 8 October 2002 1:32:10 pm Beriberi www.forsyth.public.lib.ga.us 8 October 2002 1:32:07 pm

34. Roche Lexikon Medizin (4. Aufl.) - Beriberi große Schwäche. die klassische Avitaminose bei Mangel an Vitamin http://www.gesundheit.de/roche/ro02500/r3559.html

Be ri be ri engl.: beriberi; B avitaminosis die klassische Avitaminose bei Mangel an Vitamin B Malabsorption Citratzyklus ), nicht selten bei Alkoholikern. Klinisch unterschieden als a) b) c) B.-Herz ; Shoshin-Zustand) sowie als d) Pseudo-Encephalitis W ERNICKE kongenitale B. Verwandte Themen Brustmilchintoxikation Citratzyklus Frauenmilchintoxikation Malabsorption ... Pseudoencephalitis

35. Beriberi, White Rice, And Vitamin B Entire Site. Kenneth Carpenter beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B A Disease, a Cause,and a Cure Publication Date May 2000. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8742.html

Entire Site Books Journals E-Editions The Press Kenneth Carpenter Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure Publication Date: May 2000 Subjects: Science Medicine Disease Rights: World 296 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 22 b/w photographs, 1 map, 14 tables, 15 line illustrations Clothbound Available Now Description Short Excerpt About the Author "Carpenter tells a straightforward tale." New Scientist DESCRIPTION (back to top) In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi is characterized by weakness and loss of feeling in the feet and legs, then swelling from fluid retention, and finally heart failure. Western doctors working in Asia after 1870 saw it as the major disease in native armed forces and prisons. It was at first attributed to miasms (poisonous vapors from damp soil) or to bacterial infections. In Java, chickens fed by chance on white rice lost the use of their legs. On brown rice, where the grain still contained its bran and germ, they remained healthy. Studies in Javanese prisons then showed beriberi also occurring where white (rather than brown) rice was the staple food. Birds were used to assay the potency of fractions extracted from rice bran and, after 20 years, highly active crystals were obtained. In another 10 years their structure was determined and "thiamin" was synthesized.

36. Beriberi - Información General Translate this page beriberi - Información general. http://pcs.adam.com/ency/article/000339.htm

Regresar a " - " Partes del cuerpo Enfermedades Lesiones Envenenamiento Temas especiales ... V W X Y Z Enfermedades ... Z Beriberi - Información general Información general Prevención Síntomas Tratamiento Nombres alternativos: Deficiencia de tiamina; deficiencia de vitamina B1. Definición: Es la enfermedad que se produce por la falta de vitamina B1 tiamina ) y que se caracteriza, principalmente, por afectar el corazón y el sistema nervioso. Causas, incidencia y factores de riesgo: El beriberi se ha extinguido casi por completo en muchos países del mundo desde que se descubrió que su causa era la deficiencia de tiamina, ya que la mayoría de los alimentos se enriquecen con vitaminas y una dieta normal contiene las cantidades adecuadas de tiamina Sin embargo, esta enfermedad puede aparecer en los niños de pecho cuando la madre no ha consumido tiamina suficiente o entre las personas cuyas dietas incluyen cierto tipo de pescado que produce una enzima que inactiva la tiamina.

37. Beriberi MAIN SEARCH INDEX beriberi. beriberi literally means I can't, I can't inSinghalese, which reflects the crippling effect it has on its victims. http://www.hendrickhealth.org/healthy/000193.htm

MAIN SEARCH INDEX Beriberi Definition Description Causes and symptoms Diagnosis ... Resources Definition Beriberi is a disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B ) that affects many systems of the body, including the muscles, heart, nerves, and digestive system. Beriberi literally means "I can't, I can't" in Singhalese, which reflects the crippling effect it has on its victims. It is common in parts of southeast Asia, where white rice is the main food. In the United States, beriberi is primarily seen in people with chronic alcoholism Description Beriberi puzzled medical experts for years as it ravaged people of all ages in Asia. Doctors thought it was caused by something in food. Not until the early 1900s did scientists discover that rice bran, the outer covering that was removed to create the polished white rice preferred by Asians, actually contained something that prevented the disease. Thiamine was the first vitamin identified. In the 1920s, extracts of rice polishings were used to treat the disease. In adults, there are different forms of beriberi, classified according to the body systems most affected. Dry beriberi involves the nervous system; wet beriberi affects the heart and circulation. Both types usually occur in the same patient, with one set of symptoms predominating.

38. Health Ency.: Disease: Beriberi beriberi. A vitamin deficiency disease, caused by a inadequate bodily stores ofthiamine, (vitamin B1). beriberi can damage the heart and nervous system. http://www.accessatlanta.com/shared/health/adam/ency/article/000339.html

SEARCH: The Web Yellow Pages HOME AJC.COM Illustrated Health Encyclopedia Important notice Ency. home Disease B Beriberi Overview Symptoms Treatment Prevention Alternative names: Thiamine deficiency; Vitamin B1 deficiency Definition: A vitamin deficiency disease, caused by a inadequate bodily stores of thiamin e, (vitamin B1). Beriberi can damage the heart and nervous system. Causes and Risks There are two major manifestations of thiamine deficiency: cardiovascular disease ("wet beriberi") and nervous system disease ("dry beriberi" and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.) Dry beriberi is somewhat of a misnomer because both types are most often caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Symptoms of dry beriberi include pain, tingling or loss of sensation in hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy), muscle wasting with loss of function or paralysis of the lower extremities, and potentially brain damage and death. Wet beriberi is characterized by swelling (edema), increased heart rate (tachycardia), lung congestion, and enlarged heart related to congestive heart failure. Beriberi has become very rare in the United States because most foods are now vitamin-enriched, which means that a normal diet contains adequate amounts of

39. Health Ency.: Disease: Beriberi beriberi. Full recovery is expected after treatment. Untreated, beriberi is oftenfatal. If acute heart failure has already occurred, the outlook is poor. http://www.accessatlanta.com/shared/health/adam/ency/article/000339trt.html

SEARCH: The Web Yellow Pages HOME AJC.COM Illustrated Health Encyclopedia Important notice Ency. home Disease B Beriberi Overview Symptoms Treatment Prevention Alternative names: Thiamine deficiency; Vitamin B1 deficiency Treatment Administration of thiamin e can reverse the deficiency and symptoms should improve rapidly. However, with severe deficiency, some symptoms may be irreversible. Patients should also receive therapeutic doses of other water-soluble vitamins Prognosis Cardiac damage is usually reversible and is not permanent. Full recovery is expected after treatment. Untreated, beriberi is often fatal. If acute heart failure has already occurred, the outlook is poor. Nervous system damage is also reversible if caught early. If not, some symptoms such as memory loss may not be completely recovered with treatment. Complications psychosis coma congestive heart failure death Call Your Health Care Provider If: Beriberi is extremely rare in the United States. However, if you feel your family's diet is inadequate or poorly balanced and you or your children have any of the described symptoms, call your health care provider. Ency. home

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