Review of Avitaminosis Fever and Its Clinical Significance

Abstract

Avitaminosis fever is caused by minimal storage or maximal consumption of B vitamins, especially thiamin, riboflavin or niacin inside human body. They were often found after prolonged ultra-heavy labor and hunger. Berberi fever was most important, not rare and fatal, usually associated with random combinations in a great mess of severe signs and symptoms from multiple organs and endocrine glands controlled by autonomic nervous system causing very queer,. complex, complicated clinical manifestations, which made the diagnosis very difficult and confused. It should be diagnosed collectively as autonomic nervous system dysfunction or crisis, briefly as dysautonomia. The dramatic therapeutic effect of parenteral thiamin on dysautonomia remind people that it may be a very powerful physiologic super antibiotic in eliminating microbial infections regardless pathogen and severity as observed. It may be also a powerful anti-tumor agent and had been successfully tried in cyst, lipoma, osteosarcoma, and lyphoma. Ariboflavinosis fever was milder and commonly found in pediatric especially during winter and spring. It often associated with erythematous patches. Pellagra fever was found in two cases.