infantile beriberi

infantile beriberi
a disease of breast-fed infants whose mothers have thiamine deficiency; it is characterized by diminished urine secretion, progressive edema, and often by acute cardiac failure, which may terminate in sudden death. Vomiting, aphonia, opisthotonos, and convulsions may occur.

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