Gastric bypass and stomach-stapling patients should recognize risk of nerve injury post-surgery
...recognized to cause peripheral neuropathy, such as thiamine deficiency in the disease beriberi. Rather than the surgery being a direct cause of neuropathy, the associated rapid weight loss and prolonged nausea and vomiting can lead to malnutrition and neuropathy. An important key to preventing peripheral neu...Study expands understanding of alcoholic memory disorder
...detected, noted Sullivan. Resulting from a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1), Korsakoff's syndrome is typically a ...l deficiency disorders like anorexia. The nutrient thiamine helps restore certain brain functions like recalling past events and storing new information. Curren...Herbal assisted weight loss causes neurological ailment in woman
...ound in chronic alcoholics whose dietary intake of thiamine is inadequate. The study subject, however, exhibit... woman responded positively to daily intramuscular thiamine injections. The first day of injections showed a drastic improvement and, within three days, the wal...International Thiamine (Vitamin B-1) Conference at Rutgers Newark
...human metabolic disorders. The last international thiamine conference was convened in 1996 in Blaubeuren, Ger...d mental retardation. Another disorder created by thiamine deficiency often brought on by alcoholism or malnourishment is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, an unusu...