0 a disease caused by a lack of vitamin B1, which affects the nerves and causes pain and weakness and sometimes heart failure
Beriberi was a disease of malnutrition caused by the consumption of overmilled rice.
Thiamine deficiency leads to one of two clinical conditions - dry beriberi in which a peripheral neuropathy predominates and wet beriberi which presents with cardiac failure.
The cause of beriberi has not yet been definitely ascertained, but it is probable that bad and insufficient food predisposes to the disease.
There was a massive number of deaths as a result of fevers such as malaria and beriberi.
A decoction of the leaves were used for beriberi.
As a prison camp physician, he treated diseases and conditions such as beriberi, dengue fever, dysentery, malaria, and malnutrition.
This in turn causes beriberi, a disease linked to nutritional deficiency.
Characteristics of wet beriberi include prominent edema and cardiac involvement, whereas dry beriberi is mainly characterized by a polyneuritis.
