For prevention of Wernicke’s encephalopathy, high-dose thiamine is administered parenterally to hospitalized patients and continued in case of suspected Wernicke’s syndrome. In the ambulatory ...

Wet brain is the colloquial term for the nutritional brain bomb of severe thiamine deficiency that occurs with chronic abuse of alcohol. It is medically known as Wernicke’s Encephalopathy or ...

Thiamine deficiency can cause focal lactic acidosis, alteration of the blood–brain barrier and the production of free radicals through cell death by necrosis and apoptosis. Wernicke encephalopathy (WE ...

See figure 2. For patients with alcohol withdrawal syndromes who are in hospital, it is important to assess for and aggressively treat thiamine deficiency, which can lead to Wernicke encephalopathy ...

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