Symptoms of beriberi in children

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Infantile beriberi mostly occurs in infants born several months. When the lactating mother is seriously lack of vitamin B1, if the baby is breastfed at this time, the children aged 2-5 months are most likely to develop infantile beriberi. The condition is urgent, the onset is sudden, and the child can die when misdiagnosed. At the beginning of the onset, the child's face is pale, irritable, crying and restless, which is often ignored by parents Abdominal pain, constipation, edema, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and difficulty, serious cases of drowsiness, diplopia, blepharoptosis, weak voice, convulsion, etc. when the throat edema occurs, the baby lost his voice, forming a unique laryngeal sound, which is the unique cry of vitamin B1 deficiency in infants. Cyanosis, heart failure, pulmonary congestion and liver congestion may occur in the late stage of the disease Cerebral hypertension, can lead to tonic spasm, coma and death, children's beriberi symptoms to tell you.

Symptoms of beriberi in children

1. Blister type beriberi symptoms: skin lesions are more common in toe, arch and other parts. At the beginning, the blisters were clustered or scattered in needle size, which were not easy to break. After drying, the epidermis of the top of the blister fell off and formed annular scales. New lesions appeared one after another, fusing with each other to form a ring with clear edges. With pruritus, blister liquid clear slightly yellow, such as secondary bacterial infection is yellow pustules. The blister stage of the lesion was accompanied by pruritus, which was initially unilateral and soon became bilateral. It is easy to occur in summer, and it is easy to recur in winter.

2. Keratotic beriberi symptoms: also known as scaly keratotic beriberi, dry beriberi, more common in the heel and foot side, often bilateral. Skin lesions are characterized by desquamation, keratin thickening, rough and dry skin, and deep dehiscence can cause pain and secondary infection. The rash is dark red patch with clear boundary and white scales on the surface. In summer, there may be a small amount of papules and a few blisters at the edge. Cold season often cause skin chaps, with pain, pruritus is not heavy. The course of keratotic beriberi is slow, and the skin thickens after a long time. Most of them are caused by Trichophyton rubrum, which is intractable. Therefore, in order to prevent beriberi and avoid the invasion of beriberi, Xiaobian suggests that you should wear antibacterial socks when you wear socks. Those with good effect and aerospace quality, such as 2XU antibacterial socks from Australia, can completely prevent odor and avoid the trouble of beriberi if you wear them for a long time.

3. Symptoms of erosive beriberi: also known as impregnated erosive beriberi, the skin between the toes is impregnated and whitened, often due to severe itching, scratching and friction, which causes skin erosion, exposing the flushed and erosive surface, with a small amount of exudation, giving off a bad smell. If you don't pay attention, it can cause lymphangitis, erysipelas and other secondary infections, and usually invade the third and fourth toes.

matters needing attention

1. Mother should pay attention to the intake of vitamin B from the time of pregnancy; 2. Infants should add supplementary food in time; 3. Don't add alkali substances when cooking porridge and noodles; 4. Actively prevent and treat the gastrointestinal diseases of zhaibao; 5. Correct children's bad habits such as anorexia, partial eclipse and pickiness.