Research the causes of these more general types of symptom: 1  Mouth symptoms (6864 causes). 2  Throat symptoms (3410 causes). 3  Head symptoms (10192 causes). 4  Face symptoms (8109 causes). 5  Mucus membrane symptoms (832 causes).
Introduction. Thiamine is required by all tissues and must be ingested in the diet. Thiamine requirements increase with total calorie intake, when the diet is rich in carbohydrate, and when basal metabolism is increased, such as in alcohol withdrawal (Sechi and Serra, 2007; Mancinelli and Ceccanti, 2009).
Some sources of thiamine are meats, nuts, and beans. The danger for the heavy drinker is that alcohol consumption reduces the availability of the essential nutrient thiamine. Thiamine deficiency caused by alcoholism is specifically damaging to the heart and brain function.