Beriberi Outbreak Among Unauthorised Immigrants in a Detention Camp in Malaysia
In February 2012, a district health authority received three inmates with bilateral leg swelling and difficulty in breathing from a detention camp for unauthorized immigrants. A case control study was conducted. Fasting blood samples of case and control groups were collected according to instruction...
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my.ums.eprints.249352020-02-13T23:46:24Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24935/ Beriberi Outbreak Among Unauthorised Immigrants in a Detention Camp in Malaysia Sunita Abdul Rahman Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Fadzilah Kamaludin Intan Azura Din Mahanim Yusof Kamruddin Ahmed R Medicine (General) RC Internal medicine In February 2012, a district health authority received three inmates with bilateral leg swelling and difficulty in breathing from a detention camp for unauthorized immigrants. A case control study was conducted. Fasting blood samples of case and control groups were collected according to instructions of the laboratory for determining thiamine level, and their 1 week dietary intake was analyzed. 9% (21/226) of inmates had bilateral leg swelling, and 75% (6/8) of them had low thiamine level (< 66 mmol/L). Their diet contained mainly polished rice and other items with low thiamine contents. Bilateral leg swelling was associated with history of no meat consumption during past 3 months (OR 8.4; CI 2.2–32.1). Patients were treated with 100 mg thiamine intravenously and 5 mg orally per day for 6 weeks. All patients responded well. The management was advised to provide vitamin B complex daily, and encouraged to provide thiamine rich foods. 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24935/1/Beriberi%20Outbreak%20Among%20Unauthorised%20Immigrants%20in%20a%20Detention%20Camp%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Sunita Abdul Rahman and Mohammad Saffree Jeffree and Fadzilah Kamaludin and Intan Azura Din and Mahanim Yusof and Kamruddin Ahmed (2018) Beriberi Outbreak Among Unauthorised Immigrants in a Detention Camp in Malaysia. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 20. pp. 1294-1297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-017-0674-5 |
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In February 2012, a district health authority received three inmates with bilateral leg swelling and difficulty in breathing from a detention camp for unauthorized immigrants. A case control study was conducted. Fasting blood samples of case and control groups were collected according to instructions of the laboratory for determining thiamine level, and their 1 week dietary intake was analyzed. 9% (21/226) of inmates had bilateral leg swelling, and 75% (6/8) of them had low thiamine level (< 66 mmol/L). Their diet contained mainly polished rice and other items with low thiamine contents. Bilateral leg swelling was associated with history of no meat consumption during past 3 months (OR 8.4; CI 2.2–32.1). Patients were treated with 100 mg thiamine intravenously and 5 mg orally per day for 6 weeks. All patients responded well. The management was advised to provide vitamin B complex daily, and encouraged to provide thiamine rich foods. |
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