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If carbohydrates and fats are the fuel for the body, then the vitamin is a compound that keep the body functioning properly. Every day, you need a variety of vitamins that can be obtained from food, drink, or from supplements.
One vitamin that is essential for the body is vitamin B. Vitamin B, especially B1, causing beri-beri poet harmful to the body. Come see a more complete explanation of this disease, as written by Dieu Nguyen-Khoa-Thu, MD, FACP Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California.
The disease causes beriberi
Beriberi disease is triggered by a lack of thiamine or vitamin B-1 in the body. Humans can not produce vitamin B1 and can only hold up to 30 mg in skeletal muscle, brain, heart, liver, and kidneys, so rely on food intake or supplementation from outside the body. Factors that cause a lack of vitamin B1 is strict diet, are pregnant or breast-feeding, fever, and prolonged diarrhea.
Beriberi Disease Symptoms
If in a week did not get the intake of vitamin B1 and reserves in the body have been exhausted, it will display symptoms of the disease beriberi, which consists of two types of dry and wet beriberi. Dry beriberi will attack the nervous system and causes vomiting, could not move his eyes, fever, and lead to mental disorder or Korsakoff syndrome. This condition usually occurs when caloric intake plummeted and lack of physical activity. While wet beriberi is the term used for a deficiency of vitamin B1 that attacks the cardiovascular system. Sign commonly seen is the neck veins bulging, feeling jittery, chest pain, heart failure due to strong not pump blood in the heart muscle due to injury. If no further treatment will lead to death within a matter of days, even hours.
Prevent Vitamin B1 Deficiency
Beriberi disease can be prevented by meeting the nutritional needs of the body's vitamin B1, which is between 1.1-1.2 mg per day. Some of the foods that can be included in the family is a daily menu of foods high in fiber, meat, poultry, eggs, milk and dairy products, green leafy vegetables, beets, potatoes, beans, oranges, and tomatoes. There are also some foods or drinks that actually blocks the absorption of vitamin B1 in the body for example, foods high in fat and sugar, shrimp, scallops, fish, processed food, tea, and coffee.
