You certainly have heard the name of the medicine of vitamin B, but not necessarily heard of B vitamins argument. Vitamin B is actually a family of many members, mainly including vitamins B1, B2, B6 and B12, the role of their different children in different types of lack of vitamin B, the performance is not the same symptoms.
Vitamin B1 also known as Thiamine, found in lean pork, rice bran, wheat bran, red bayberry, peanuts, whole grains than refined rice, the smart side of the content of which is more a result of B1 in the skin and germ of cereals quite rich in content.
If, after fine processing, and remove the skin and germ of cereals, B1 will follow a large number of missing. Taomi excessive; cooking time too long; porridge, cooking pasta or baking soda are added alkali, as well as meals are not balanced, long-term to nine starchy carbohydrates) as the main, and rarely eat meat, beans; suffering from chronic diseases , chronic diarrhea Dengjun will cause a lack of B1. B1-borne diseases due to the lack of known as beri-beri, mainly for the following symptoms:
1, gastrointestinal symptoms: baby more common, manifested as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal distention, constipation, and enlargement of the liver.
2, nervous system symptoms: the baby's symptoms and different from older children, cranial nerve paralysis first appeared, showed looked indifferent, lethargy, sucking, and limb weakness, all kinds of tendon reflexes diminished or disappeared; some babies first appeared recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis symptoms, may have Shengya, crying silently. Older children suffering from beri-beri, when Zeyi peripheral nerve damage as the main manifestations: first, the performance decreased as the feeling, touch, pain and temperature perception have disappeared, and have made up, numbness, lancinating pain and burning sensation. Emerged after the motor nerve palsy, paralysis of the first starting from the lower limbs, children Yirong of falls, severe ptosis feet, difficulty walking; paralysis can be gradually involving the upper extremity, wrist sag, and then decreased muscle strength, as well as muscle atrophy.
3, cardiovascular system symptoms: can be expressed as irritability, shortness of breath, looking pale and lips cyanosis. Young infants is also easily lead to acute heart failure, such as the lack of timely treatment, can quickly die. Attention should be given that, as pregnant women, the lack of B1, may occur in severe cases of neonatal congenital beriberi. Children with systemic edema, body temperature is low, feeding weakness, low voice, repeated vomiting, lethargy day. The above-mentioned symptoms of children, especially those from rice, the staple food of rice-producing areas, or when the doctors in general would take into account the possibility of beriberi, after the necessary diagnosed, it will provide timely B1 and symptomatic treatment. After proper treatment, loss of appetite, edema and heart failure symptoms may disappear within 24 hours; nervous and cardiovascular system, the symptoms must be a few weeks or even months to recover. With the improvement of people's living standards, beri-beri patients Although significantly reduced, but as parents must understand this disease, and prevention in their daily lives: as far as possible not to milled rice, the staple food of the smart side, in particular, emphasis should be placed diversification of food and maintain a balanced diet and pay attention to cooking methods is reasonable.