thiamine (c) Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland) (d) Extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (e) Bariatric surgery (f) AIDS (g) Prolonged diarrhea or use of diuretics (medications that make you urinate) More). Breast feeding mother need daily thiamine in their diet. Infant drinking Breast milk or formula low in thiamine are at risk, for thiamine deficiency. Thank a million, www.healthline.com. Thanks, also, Mr. S.O. Kolade (S.O.K.), my Health Science teacher at Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo (1964-68), a born teacher who taught his class many ramifications of this disease that , in 1970, I diagnosed it easily in an uncle sick and bedridden at home , took him to KETU CLINIC in Lagos, where a doctor confirmed the diagnosis. I have seen it presented in many cases since then and, all too often, the challenged people are on a heavy white rice diet. To such people, I always suggest the inclusion in the daily diet of a good dosage of Vitamin B1 and a Vitamin B-50 procured from a reputable health food store. As you settle before the next meal of white rice, think of the following facts. In the milling of the bran, the bran part, 8o percent of the thiamine is lost. Iron and Riboflabin losses occur as well. Iron deficiency may cause anemia. Deficiency of Riboflabin (Vitamin B2) may cause cataracts of the eye lens. The symptoms of a deficiency may also include sore threat, redness and swelling of the mucus lining in the mouth, cracks on the lips and those breaks in the corners of the mouth, reddish, in flame tongue, scaly and moist skin. As proteins and Vitamin E are lost as well in the milling of rice, deficiencies of these food substances cannot be ruled out in populations where milled and polished rice has being a staple food for decades. Protein deficiency means the body will not be well maintained in terms of the repair of cellular damage, and old, tired or worn out molecules will not be quickly and regularly replaced. This
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