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Treatments could include:
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Vitamin Supplementation
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The goal of treatment is to replace the thiamine your body is lacking. This is done with thiamine supplements. Thiamine supplements are given through a shot (injection) or taken by mouth.
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Treatment with thiamine reverses the deficiency in the body and relieves most of the symptoms. Severe thiamine deficiency is treated with high doses of thiamine given by injection into a muscle (intramuscular) or in a solution that goes into a vei...
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Depending on how a patient enters the health care system, an emergency room physician, internal medicine physician, family practitioner, neurologist , gastroenterologist, or cardiologist may treat a patient for beriberi. A nutritionist should be c...
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