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A person experiencing peripheral neuropathy and weakness, muscle wasting pain and tenderness, and oedema caused from lack of thiamine, is experiencing the deficiency disease known as Beriberi.
What is Beriberi?
- Beriberi is a deficiency of thiamine, more commonly known as vitamin B1. Your body needs thiamine to break down and digest the foods you eat, to keep your metabolism going, and help your muscles and nervous system do their jobs effectively.
- Beriberi can affect the cardiovascular system or central nervous system.
- Dry beriberi is characterized by neuropathy, which has a severity that correlates with the degree and duration of thiamine deficiency and can be associated with Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome.
- Dry beriberi can damage the central nervous system (CNS). It disrupts motor functioning (the movement of the muscles). It can also cause impaired reflexes and numbness in the extremities, but it’s generally easier to treat than beriberi that impacts the heart.
- Wet beriberi is characterized by cardiomyopathy, cardiomegaly. Wet beriberi affects the cardiovascular system. Since it involves the functioning of the heart, it's a life-threatening medical emergency that needs immediate treatment.
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