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Beriberi: Introduction

Beriberi: Disease due to vitamin B1 deficiency (thiamine). More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Beriberi is available below.

Symptoms of Beriberi

• Appetite loss
• Tiredness
• Irritability
• Muscle aches
• Limb pains
• more symptoms...»

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Treatments for Beriberi

• Oral thiamine
• Thiamine injections
• Vitamin B1 - possibly used for related vitamin B1 deficiency
• Vitamin B1
• Oral thiamine
• more treatments...»

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Beriberi?

• Misdiagnosis of Beriberi
• Failure to diagnose Beriberi
• Hidden causes of Beriberi (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Beriberi

Beriberi: Related Patient Stories

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• Feeling of wetness in one spot on wrist
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• embarrasingly wet
• dry peeling and itch

Beriberi: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Beriberi:

• Heart complications
• Heart failure
• more complications...»

Causes of Beriberi

• Thiamine deficiency
• Malnutrition
• Alcoholism
• more causes...»

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More information about causes of Beriberi:

• Underlying causes of Beriberi
• Beriberi as a symptom

Disease Topics Related To Beriberi

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Beriberi:

• Thiamine
• Wet beri beri
• Dry beri beri
• Vitamin B1 deficiency
• Wernicke korsakoff's syndrome
• Gastric bypass surgery
• Alcoholism
• more related diseases...»

Misdiagnosis and Beriberi

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Prevention of Beriberi

Prevention information for Beriberi has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Beriberi.

• Vitamin B1
• more preventions...»

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Beriberi: Broader Related Topics

• Vitamin deficiency
• more types...»

Types of Beriberi

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Definitions of Beriberi:

A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss, confabulations, and disturbances of attention. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1139) - (Source - Diseases Database)

Avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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