41. Beriberi Definition - Medical Dictionary Definitions Of Popular Medical Terms Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21653

42. Prevention's Healing With Vitamins Beriberi These days, cases of beriberi are rare in the Western world. MEDICAL ALERTIf you have symptoms of beriberi, you should see a doctor for proper http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/10/35.cfm

New customer? Sign Up Current customer? Log In Home Vitamins Minerals ... Learning Center Search Products Library Ways To Shop Brands Health Concern Departments Free Catalog MotherNature.com's Best-of-the-Best Natural Products Catalog Is Here! Click Here to Get Your Free Copy Today. Chapter List For: Prevention's Healing with Vitamins: Beta-Carotene Biotin Calcium Drugs Can Sabotage Your Nutrition ... Prevention's Healing with Vitamins From the Rodale book, Prevention's Healing with Vitamins: Beriberi Getting Enough Thiamin T he legend goes something like this: A nineteenth-century Dutch shipboard physician, studying the effects of a strange disease in the Far East, calls for his next patient. But instead of seeing someone walking through the door, he hears a faint cry of "Beriberi!" Roughly translated from Sinhalese, a language of the tiny country of Sri Lanka, the response means "I can't, I can't!" The would-be patient literally couldn't muster enough muscle to get up to see the doctor. And his response became the name of the mystery disease. Years later, this disease, which involves a gradual decline in neuromuscular coordination, was linked to a deficiency of thiamin. Although rice and whole grainsdietary staples in that part of the worldnaturally contain thiamin, the process of refining them for consumption removes the nutrient. The result: Those folks who live on the devitalized rice and grains become thiamin-deficient. The deficiency soon leads to symptoms such as leg swelling and numbness, fluid buildup in the heart, severe muscle wasting, irritability and nausea.

43. Beriberi, White Rice, And Vitamin B In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, beriberi is a story of contested knowledge and erratic scientific pathways. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8742.html

@import "style.css"; 296 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 22 b/w photographs, 1 map, 14 tables, 15 line illustrations Published May 2000 Available worldwide Entire Site Books Journals E-Editions The Press Kenneth Carpenter Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure In stockships in 2-3 days Categories: Medicine Disease Health Care Medicine ... MORE INFO AND CHOICES Email: 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.

44. Vitamin B12 Neurologic. Tremor; Diminished reflexes in lower limbs; Muscle atrophy. CardiacCongestive Heart Failure (Wet beriberi). Pedal Edema Pleural Effusions http://www.fpnotebook.com/PHA102.htm

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45. Beriberi beriberi can be helped with proper nutrition have a look at what is helpful,and where to get it. http://www.zestrsa.co.za/treatment/treatment-beriberi.htm

beriberi treatment a variety of illnesses, diseases and problems can be helped by using vitamin, mineral and nutritional supplements - and on this page, and accompanying pages, we try to bring you a selection of nutritional ingredients, including vitamins and other nutritional ingredients that may benefit your particular problem. These suggestions must not be seen as an alternative to medical treatment or medical advise, and if in doubt, please consult your registered medical professional. Left untreated these problems can have a ripple effect and cause other situations to become more problematic - if you are interested in helping your body to fight this particular problem, have a look at the suggestions below, which could be beneficial to you. beriberi may dealt with by the following: vitamin b complex For dosage of the individual ingredients, simply click here , and follow the hyperlink to the specific page dealing with that ingredient. Although extra supplements may assist greatly with a particular problem, keep in mind that you should always follow a balanced diet, and that moderate exercise and sufficient water will also improve your nutritional status. Should you be looking at buying any vitamin, mineral, amino acid etc. supplements

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HOME SEARCH CURRENT ISSUE PAST ISSUES ... HELP Please sign in for full text and personal services Previous Volume 343:588 August 24, 2000 Number 8 Next Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings. Full Text Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager E-mail When Cited ... Find Similar Articles By Kenneth J. Carpenter. 282 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. $40. ISBN 0-520-22053-6. For much of the past century, beriberi played a bit part on the stage of medical history as the disease that initially prompted the identification of vitamins and the elucidation of their role in human well-being. The Dutch colonial scientist Christiaan Eijkman, who noted that his chickens came down with beriberi when fed an experimental diet of white rice, has entered nutritional folklore along with James Lind and his lime and Joseph Goldberger and his elucidation of pellagra. Perhaps because it was uncommon in the West, or perhaps because it paled as a scourge of the

48. How The Vitamins For Preventing Scurvy, Beriberi, And Pellagra Were Discovered. A story of a scurvy sailor who ate grass, and lived Scottish surgeon Dr.James Lind. Did the grass contain something? http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/howfindv.htm

How Vitamins were Discovered H O H NO The Dreaded "Scurvy Infection". The sailor's legs were so swollen that the man could not walk. His captain, hoping to stop the spread of the dreaded "scurvy infection," put the man ashore on a desolate Atlantic island. The poor wretch was bound to die, the captain felt, but perhaps the rest of the crew could thus be saved. The story of the sailor who "ate grass, like a beast and lived" was of great interest to a Scottish surgeon Dr. James Lind. Having been with the British fleet, he was aware of the thousands of seamen who died yearly with scurvy. Lind's question was, Did the grass contain something that the man's normal diet did not? Was there a connection between scurvy and diet? Deciding to experiment, Lind became responsible for an important chapter in the story of "how they found your vitamins." Not that Dr. Lind was looking for a vitamin. The word was unheard of before 1911. The discovery of most vitamins was really accidental in that the researchers were attacking specific diseases, not studying foods or nutrition. Further, this story has no one hero, but involves the efforts of men from many countries. These pioneers frequently did not benefit from one another's discoveries, as they lacked the benefits of modern communications. Yet, sometimes, despite the scorn of contemporary doctors and scientists, the efforts of these men constitute a story of courage, perseverance and eventual success.

49. Beri-beri The Story of beriberi. Using History to Teach Science Worksheet for class Pleaserefer to the Sourcebook for Teaching Science for the text. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/history/activities/beriberi.html

Chapters: Sourcebook for Teaching Science (1) Thinking Scientifically (2) The Science Curriculum (3) The Language of Science (4) Communicating Concepts (5) Problem Solving in Science (6) Science Activities and Projects (7) The Science Laboratory (8) Professional Issues Internet Resources for Teaching Science Resources for Teaching Biology Resources for Teaching Chemistry Resources for Teaching Physics Resources for Teaching Geoscience Resources for Teaching Health Lesson Development Science Laboratory Professional Development Science Education at CSUN The Story of Beriberi Using History to Teach Science Worksheet for class Please refer to the Sourcebook for Teaching Science for the text.These pictures are to be used inconjunction with the activity in the book. Indonesia Map Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies Beri-beri Indonesian rice farm ... Christiaan Eijkman Indonesia: Source: CIA World Factbook Site of present day Jakarta: Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Batavia, Java, approximately. 1665.

50. Beriberi -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article beriberi is an ailment caused by a deficiency of (Any of a group of beriberi occurs in people whose staple diet consists mainly of polished white rice, http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/be/beriberi.htm

Beriberi [Categories: Malnutrition] Beriberi is an ailment caused by a deficiency of (Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism) vitamin (A B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth) thiamine ), the symptoms of which may include weight loss, emotional disturbances, impaired sensory perception, weakness, and periods of irregular heartbeat. Beriberi occurs in people whose staple diet consists mainly of polished white rice, which has little or no thiamine. Therefore the disease has been seen traditionally in people in Asian countries and in chronic alcoholics with impaired liver function. If a baby is fed the milk of a mother who suffers from a deficiency in thiamine, the child may develop beriberi. There are two forms of the disease: wet beriberi and dry beriberi. Wet beriberi affects the heart; it is sometimes fatal, as it causes a combination of heart failure and weakening of the capillary walls, which causes the peripheral tissues to become waterlogged. Dry beriberi causes wasting and partial paralysis resulting from damage to the peripheral nerves. The first stage in discovering the cause of beriberi was in the 1890s, when a Dutch doctor

51. Beriberi - Patient UK beriberi Patient UK. A directory of UK health, disease, illness and relatedmedical websites that provide patient information. http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000904/

PatientPlus articles are written for doctors and so the language can be technical. However, some people find that they add depth to the articles found in the other sections of this website which are written for non-medical people. Beriberi Disorder caused by dietary thiamine deficiency. Epidemiology Incidence Rare in UK Risk Factors Poor diet Presentation Three main forms: Wet beriberi with high output cardiac failure cardiomegaly and hypotension rapidly causing death. Dry beriberi - polyneuropathy starting with paraesthesia leading to painful muscle wasting with polyneuritis. Eventually complete sensory loss with patient becoming immobile and emaciated. Infantile beriberi - occurs when thiamine-deficient mothers breast feed. At 2-5 months child appears restless and distressed with high output cardiac failure, may have convulsions and become comatose (acute form). Alternatively, child frets and sleeps poorly. Flaccid muscles, cardiac failure and GI symptoms and sudden death are common (chronic form). Management Drugs Thiamine IM Prevention Balanced diet, fortified food or supplements.

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Search Mamma.com for "beriberi" Search: Normal Definitions Short defs (Pronunciation Key) ber·i·ber·i Listen: 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 Back to Search Back The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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55. Beriberi This article about beriberi is made available on the Web by eMedicine, The document also discusses the causes, signs, and symptoms of beriberi; http://omni.ac.uk/browse/mesh/D001602.html

low graphics Beriberi other: Wernicke Encephalopathy Beriberi A peer-reviewed article providing information about the pathophysiology and frequency of beriberi, and the effects of race, age and sex. The document also discusses the causes, signs, and symptoms of beriberi, diagnostic tests that may be carried out, treatment options, and follow-up care. A bibliography of articles with links to their entry in Medline is included. The article was last updated in July 2003 and is made available on the Web by eMedicine. Beriberi Last modified: 02 Sep 2005

56. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome beriberi; Endemic Polyneuritis; Nutritional Neuropathy; Thiamine Deficiency Wet beriberi; beriberi Heart Disease; Shoshin beriberi; Dry beriberi http://webcenter.health.webmd.netscape.com/hw/brain_nervous_system/nord168.asp

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57. Beriberi beriberi. See Thiamin. http://www.dietpower.com/help/diet/beriberi.htm

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59. Archaic Medical Terms English List B The word beriberi is, in all probability, derived from the reduplication of theHindu word beri, A form of beriberi marked by cardiac failure and edema, http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/EnglishB.htm

Antiquus Morbus Baghdad Boil Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Ba A swelling behind the knee that is composed of a membrane-lined sac filled with synovial fluid and is associated with certain joint disorders (as arthritis). [Merriam] A disease characterized by congestion and enlargement of the spleen; accompanied by anemia or cirrhosis. [Wordnet] Barbiers A disease of India and the Malabar coast; a peculiar species of Palsy. [Thomas1875] A variety of paralysis peculiar to India and the Malabar coast considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form Barking Cough A bark like cough of children, seen in croup and other conditions. [Dorland] Barrel Chest A chest permanently resembling the shape of a barrel, i.e., with increased anteroposterior diameter, roughly equaling the lateral diameter; usually with some degree of kyphosis; seen in cases of emphysema. [CancerWEB] Bay Sore Chiclero Ulcer Beading of the Ribs Rachitic Rosary Bealed A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Webster]

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