21. Diseases Info beriberi has become almost nonexistent in the United States since the discovery beriberi can also appear, in breastfed infants when the mother has an http://phoenity.com/diseases/beriberi.html

Diseases Info Skip to navigation Beriberi Overview Symptoms Treatment Prevention Overview Alternative names thiamin deficiency; vitamin B1 deficiency Definition A vitamin deficiency disease, caused by a lack of vitamin B1 (thiamin); the most significant manifestations are damage to the heart and nervous system. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Beriberi has become almost nonexistent in the United States since the discovery of its cause, thiamin deficiency. Most foods are now vitamin enriched, which means that a normal diet contains adequate amounts of thiamin. Beriberi, although uncommon, can be found among alcoholics. Alcohol-related thiamin deficiency is caused by inadequate intakes of thiamin as well as impaired absorption and storage. Beriberi can also appear, in breast-fed infants when the mother has an inadequate intake of thiamin or if the infant is fed unusual formulas without thiamin supplements. Deficiencies may also be found in people whose diet includes certain types of fish that produce an enzyme that inactivates thiamin. Early symptoms of beriberi are nonspecific and include fatigue, irritability, restlessness, loss of appetite, and vague abdominal discomfort.

22. Introduction Beriberi - WrongDiagnosis.com Introduction to beriberi as a medical condition including symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prognosis. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

23. Introduction: Beriberi - WrongDiagnosis.com Introduction to beriberi as a medical condition including symptoms, diagnosis,misdiagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prognosis. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/b/beriberi/intro.htm

Home Symptoms Diseases Risks ... Diseases Search our medical database Subscribe to our free Newsletter sample Send this page to a friend Condition Lists By Organ By Symptom By Class By Prevalence ... List A-Z Current chapter: Beriberi Next sections Basic Summary for Beriberi Causes of Beriberi Risk Factors for Beriberi Symptoms of Beriberi ... Complications of Beriberi Next chapters: Pellagra Biotin deficiency Vitamin E deficiency Vitamin E overdose ... Feedback Introduction: Beriberi Beriberi: Disease due to vitamin B1 deficiency (thiamine) Researching symptoms of Beriberi: Further information about the symptoms of Beriberi is available including a list of symptoms of Beriberi , or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center Treatments for Beriberi: Various information is available about treatments available for Beriberi , or research treatments for other diseases. Causes of Beriberi: Research more detailed information about the causes of Beriberi , other possibly hidden causes of Beriberi , or other general information about Beriberi Contents for Beriberi: Basic Summary for Beriberi Causes of Beriberi Risk Factors for Beriberi Symptoms of Beriberi ... Glossary for Beriberi Last revision: May 26, 2003

24. Treatments For Beriberi - WrongDiagnosis.com Treatments for beriberi including drugs, prescription medications, alternativetreatments, surgery, and lifestyle changes. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/b/beriberi/treatments.htm

Home Symptoms Diseases Risks ... Beriberi Search our medical database Subscribe to our free Newsletter sample Send this page to a friend Condition Lists By Organ By Symptom By Class By Prevalence ... List A-Z Current chapter: Beriberi Next sections Glossary for Beriberi Next chapters: Pellagra Biotin deficiency Vitamin E deficiency Vitamin E overdose ... Feedback Treatments for Beriberi Treatment list for Beriberi: The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Beriberi includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans. Oral thiamine Thiamine injections Last revision: May 26, 2003 Diseases Beriberi Did we miss something? Please provide feedback or suggestions By using this site you agree to our . Information provided on this site is for informational purposes only; it is not intended as a substitute for advice from your own medical team. The information on this site is not to be used for diagnosing or treating any health concerns you may have - please contact your physician or health care professional for all your medical needs. Please see our IMPORTANT! Use of this site is subject to our

25. Diagnosing Beriberi In Emergency Situations This paper addresses beriberi which is primarily due to thiamine (vitamin Bl)deficiency. Most forms of beriberi are easily confused with other illnesses, 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;

26. Beriberi, White Rice, And Vitamin B (Kenneth Carpenter) A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure The symptoms of beriberi are weakness and lossof feeling in the feet and legs, swelling of the lower half of the body, http://dannyreviews.com/h/Beriberi.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure Kenneth J. Carpenter University of California Press 2000 A book review by Danny Yee The symptoms of beriberi are weakness and loss of feeling in the feet and legs, swelling of the lower half of the body, and in the worst cases heart failure and death. It used to be a major contributor to mortality, especially in infants a third of the workers in one Malaysian mine in just two years, 10% of all births in Manila around 1915, and so forth. As we now know, beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency of thiamin (vitamin B1), most commonly associated with reliance on polished white rice. But establishing this, isolating the "vitamin" responsible, and implementing appropriate public health measures was a long and complex process. In Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B Kenneth Carpenter makes of it a fine "medical detective story". Some kind of connection with diet is not hard to discern the Chinese writer Han Yu noted around 800 AD that the disease affected rice-eating people in the south but not wheat-eating ones in the north. But a trace vitamin present in differing quantities in a range of foods posed a complex puzzle and there were a plethora of not implausible explanations: a miasma restricted to particular regions, an infectious agent, toxins or an anti-vitamin in rice, and so forth. An added complication was a lack of communication between scientists and doctors from different national traditions.

27. Beriberi The cardiovascular symptoms of wet beriberi can respond to treatment within a Recovery from peripheral neuropathy and other symptoms of dry beriberi may http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/beriberi.jsp

28. Ticker Willkommen bei. eintreten english version. Besucherzähler . http://www.beriberirecords.de/

Willkommen bei eintreten english version

29. Christiaan Eijkman (www.whonamedit.com) Eijkman discovered that the real cause of beriberi was the deficiency of some vital In addition to his work on beriberi, he occupied himself with other http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1983.html

Home List categories Eponyms A-Z Biographies by country ... Contact Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor. A recommendation: Hypography is an open community about science and all things related Christiaan Eijkman Dutch physician and pathologist, born August 11, 1858, Nijkerk, province of Gelderland; died November 5, 1930, Utrecht. Associated eponyms: Eijkman's syndrome A complex of nervous symptoms in animals deproved of vitamin B1. Eijkman's test A test to determine whether coliform bacteria come from from warm-blooded animals. Biography: Christiaan Eijkman is famous for his nutritional research. In 1893 he discovered that a diet of polished (overkvernet) rice causes beriberi, and was able to produce the disease experimentally in birds. He discovered vitamin B. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins from Great Britain, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin. Christiaan Eijkman was the seventh child of Johanna Alida Pool and Christiaan Eijkman, a boarding-school proprietor in the small Gelderland town of Nijkerk, situated at the northern border of the Veluwe region. Eijkman had several gifted brothers. One became a chemist and a professor at Tokyo and Groningen; another was a linguist; and a third was one of the first roentgenologists in the Netherlands. A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced elementary education. It was here that Christiaan and his brothers received their early education.

30. Beriberi (The term beriberi is derived from the Sinhalese word meaning extreme weakness. )In the form known as dry beriberi, there is a gradual degeneration of the http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/64_72.html

beriberi, also called VITAMIN B DEFICIENCY, nutritional disorder caused by a deficiency of vitamin B (thiamine) and characterized by impairment of the nerves and heart. General symptoms include loss of appetite and overall lassitude, digestive irregularities, and a feeling of numbness and weakness in the limbs and extremities. (The term beriberi is derived from the Sinhalese word meaning "extreme weakness.") In the form known as dry beriberi, there is a gradual degeneration of the long nerves, first of the legs and then of the arms, with associated atrophy of muscle and loss of reflexes. In wet beriberi, a more acute form, there is edema (overabundance of fluid in the tissues) resulting largely from cardiac failure and poor circulation. In infants breast-fed by mothers who are deficient in thiamine, beriberi may lead to rapidly progressing heart failure. The cardiac symptoms, in both infants and adults, generally respond promptly and dramatically to the administration of thiamine. When neurological involvement is present, response to thiamine therapy is much more gradual; in more severe cases, the structural lesions of the nerve cells may be irreversible. Thiamine normally plays an essential role as a coenzyme in the metabolism of carbohydrates; in its absence, pyruvic acid and lactic acid (products of carbohydrate digestion) accumulate in the tissues, where they are believed to be responsible for most of the neurological and cardiac manifestations.

31. Beriberi: Definition And Much More From Answers.com ber·i·ber·i ( ber eber e ) n. A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine,endemic in eastern and southern Asia and characterized by. http://www.answers.com/topic/beriberi

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Medical WordNet Wikipedia Translations Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping beriberi Dictionary ber·i·ber·i bĕr ē-bĕr n. A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine, endemic in eastern and southern Asia and characterized by neurological symptoms, cardiovascular abnormalities, and edema. [Sinhalese, reduplication of beri , weakness.] Encyclopedia beriberi bĕr ēbĕr ) , deficiency disease occurring when the human body has insufficient amounts of thiamine (vitamin B Medical ber·i·ber·i bĕr ē-bĕr n. A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine, endemic in eastern and southern Asia, and characterized by neurological symptoms, cardiovascular abnormalities, and edema. Also called endemic neuritis WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The noun beriberi has one meaning: Meaning #1 avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) Wikipedia beriberi Beriberi is an ailment caused by a deficiency of vitamin thiamine ), the symptoms of which may include weight loss, emotional disturbances, impaired sensory perception, weakness, and periods of irregular

32. Beriberi beriberi is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by inadequate bodily storesof (vitamin B1). It can damage the heart and nervous system. http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/000339.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zCMt='a00' About Healthcare Center Healthcare Center Essentials ... Surgeries and Procedures zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Allergies Arthritis Asthma Breast Cancer ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/6.htm','');w(xb+xb); Search Healthcare Center ENCYCLOPEDIA INDEX Injury Disease Nutrition Poison ... Z Beriberi Overview Symptoms Treatment Prevention Definition: Beriberi is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by inadequate bodily stores of thiamine (vitamin B-1). 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.

33. Beriberi Heart Disease DESCRIPTION A form of beriberi caused by a deficiency of thiamine characterizedby cardiac failure and edema, but without extensive nervous system http://www.5mcc.com/Assets/SUMMARY/TP0117.html

Beriberi heart disease DESCRIPTION: A form of beriberi caused by a deficiency of thiamine characterized by cardiac failure and edema, but without extensive nervous system involvement. CAUSES: chronic alcoholism thiamine deficiency malnutrition Synonyms: vitamin B1 deficiency heart disease wet beriberi ICD-9-CM: 265.0 beriberi Author(s): Mark R. Dambro, MD

34. Beriberi Nervous System Syndrome associated with beriberi heart disease; often progresses to cerebral beriberi 265.0 beriberi SEE ALSO. beriberi heart disease Neuritis/neuralgia http://www.5mcc.com/Assets/SUMMARY/TP0118.html

Beriberi nervous system syndrome DESCRIPTION: Usual course - chronic; progressive; generally associated with beriberi heart disease; often progresses to cerebral beriberi CAUSES: thiamine deficiency malnutrition chronic alcoholism fever high carbohydrate intake thyrotoxicosis dialysis diuresis ICD-9-CM: 265.0 beriberi SEE ALSO: Beriberi heart disease Neuritis/neuralgia Korsakoff's psychosis Author(s): Mark R. Dambro, MD

35. Beriberi beriberi. Nutritional disorder occurring mostly in the tropics and resulting froma deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine). The disease takes two forms colon; http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017792.html

// Show bread crumbs navigation path. breadcrumbs('four'); //> From: www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/ ENCYCLOPAEDIA Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia Men's Health ... Wildlife Frames not supported Frames not supported Encyclopaedia Search Click a letter for the index A B C D ... Z Or search the encyclopaedia: beriberi Nutritional disorder occurring mostly in the tropics and resulting from a deficiency of vitamin B thiamine oedema Related Links oedema Dictionary of Difficult Words - beriberi cyanocobalamin thiamine Tunisia Flag The flag was introduced by Hassan II, the Bey of Tunisia. Red is an Islamic colour. Effective date c. Buy Cheap Games Gran Turismo 4 Win £500 cash Volunteer to take part in our Tiscali survey and you could win £500 to spend on whatever you want. Print now Send to a friend Related articles Related products var st_pg=""; var st_ai=""; var st_v=1.0; var st_ci="762"; var st_di="d001"; var st_dd="st.sageanalyst.net"; var st_tai="v:1.2.3"; servePixl("REFERENCE.HOME"); //accipter 1x1 pixel

36. Dictionary Of Difficult Words - Beriberi beriberi. n. Eastern disease, similar to peripheral neuritis, due to deficiencyof vitamin B 1. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002259.htm

// Show bread crumbs navigation path. breadcrumbs('four'); //> From: www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/ DICTIONARIES Animals Computers Difficult Words ... Plants Frames not supported Frames not supported Index A B C D ... Z beriberi n. Eastern disease, similar to peripheral neuritis, due to deficiency of vitamin B 1. Helicon Publishing LTD 2000. Dictionary search Search for: Brunei Flag The four-feathered wing, the Sayap, symbolizes the protection of justice, tranquillity, prosperity, and peace. The scroll reads Brunei City of Peace. The flag and umbrella are based on ancient royal regalia while the mast represents the state. Effective date c. Print now Send to a friend Related articles Related products var st_pg=""; var st_ai=""; var st_v=1.0; var st_ci="762"; var st_di="d001"; var st_dd="st.sageanalyst.net"; var st_tai="v:1.2.3"; servePixl("REFERENCE.DICTIONARIES"); //accipter 1x1 pixel

37. Beriberi - Definition Of Beriberi By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus And E Definition of beriberi in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of beriberi. What doesberiberi mean? beriberi synonyms, beriberi antonyms. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/beriberi

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='beriberi' Your help is needed: American Red Cross The Salvation Army join mailing list webmaster tools Word (phrase): Word Starts with Ends with Definition subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Computing dictionary Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Columbia encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia ... encyclopedia beriberi Also found in: Medical Columbia Wikipedia Hutchinson 0.03 sec. Page tools Printer friendly Cite / link Email Feedback ber·i·ber·i (b r -b r n. A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine, endemic in eastern and southern Asia and characterized by neurological symptoms, cardiovascular abnormalities, and edema. [Sinhalese, reduplication of beri weakness Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Noun beriberi - avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) avitaminosis hypovitaminosis - any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins kakke disease - the endemic form of beriberi Mentioned in References in classic literature aneurin antiberiberi factor avitaminosis b ... dr.

38. Beriberi Medical Information beriberi Information from Drugs.com. beriberi is a vitamin deficiency diseasecaused by inadequate bodily stores of thiamine (vitamin B1). http://www.drugs.com/enc/beriberi.html

Home New Drugs Latest News Drug Interactions ... Forum Drugs.com - prescription drug and medicine information available on over 24,000 approved- medications and pharmaceuticals, including side effects and drug interactions. Log-in Register Advertisement Buy a Link Now Special Offers From our sponsors Categories Diabetes Gastro Center Weight Loss AIDS/HIV ... Sexual Health Advertisement Advanced Search Or click the first letter of a drug name: A B C D ... Z Beriberi Injury Disease Nutrition Poison ... Z 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 There are two major manifestations of thiamine deficiency: cardiovascular disease (wet beriberi) and nervous system disease ("dry beriberi" and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome). 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 potential brain damage and death. Wet beriberi is characterized by swelling, increased heart rate, lung congestion, and enlarged heart related to congestive heart failure.

39. Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi And Vitamin B1 Eijkman had seen many victims of beriberi while working for the army in the Eijkman concluded that beriberi must be a disease which took a long time to http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/vitamin_b1/eijkman.html

HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B1 In Eijkman's time, Indonesia was a Dutch colony and Jakarta was called Batavia. "White rice can be poisonous!" This was the conclusion Christiaan Eijkman declared in 1896 on his return to the Netherlands, after ten years of research in Batavia, Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Christiaan Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858 in the Dutch town of Nijkerk. He was the seventh child of the headmaster at the local school. Robert Koch was Eijkman's teacher in Berlin in 1885. Twenty years later, Koch was to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on tuberculosis. Who Was Eijkman and Why Did He Travel to Java? Early on Christiaan Eijkman had decided he wanted to become a doctor. When the time came, his family couldn't afford to send him to medical school. Nevertheless, he found the means to get the education he needed. The Dutch colonial army had use for many doctors and they paid for his education in exchange for a few years of medical work in the Dutch East Indies. Christiaan got his medical training, and then went to the colonies to work as an army surgeon. A short time after his arrival he got malaria, and after two years, it became impossible for him to work. He was sent back home to recover.

40. Infantile Beriberi Definition - Medical Dictionary Definitions Of Popular Medica Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25312

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Page 2     21-40 of 103    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | Next 20