Vitamin B1

The Vitamin B1 kit is a microtiter plate test kit based on a microbiological method which measures the total vitamin B1 content in whole blood using a Lactobacillus fermentum coated microtiter plate. For use in human and veterinary medicine and in research.

Vitamin B1 deficiency may lead to beriberi, characterised by nerve, heart, and brain abnormalities.

Deficiency may occur in alcoholics or in special clinical situations such as hemodialysis, chronic peritoneal dialysis, or after administration of glucose to a vitamin B1-depleted patient. Further vitamin B1 deficiency diseases are Wernicke‘s encephalopathy, Korsakow syndrome, and some forms of Landry‘s paralysis. Myopathy also was found in relation to thiamine deficiency.