It is true that vitamin B1 plays a big role in the treatment of alcoholism, but taking vitamin B1 is not likely to restore memory for your husband in particular and other drinkers in general.
Alcoholics are defined as drinking alcohol for more than 10 years, drinking at least 300ml of alcohol per day.
Since alcoholics have been drinking for a long time with too much alcohol, many of the organs in their bodies are damaged, most notably the brain, liver, and stomach.
The brain is atrophy and myelin degeneration due to starvation because there is not enough amino acid and glucose. This is understandable because drinkers eat very little meat, starch, green leafy vegetables. Furthermore, alcohol easily penetrates the brain, causing direct damage to nerve cells. When the brain is atrophy and degeneration of the myelin excess, there is no way, no medicine to help it recover. Vitamin B1 does not improve memory in these patients.
Liver fat, inflammation, fibrosis ... function decline, so do not synthesize enough amino acids for the brain.
Stomach mucosal inflammation loss of ability to absorb vitamin B1, then every day alcoholic drinkers to 1gram of vitamin B1 also does not help. In clinical trials, high doses of vitamin B1 are required for intramuscular injection, while the oral medication is poorly absorbed.
Thus, when drinking alcohol to a certain threshold, the patient is injured many organs cannot recover. Sadly, the brain is the first and most severely injured organ, so the memory of the alcoholic is very poor, both near memory and memory. By taking a CT Scanner or MRI scan, your doctor can assess the severity of your brain damage.
Alcohol withdrawal is the only way to give hope to an alcoholic who can restore organs in the body. If alcoholics continue to drink alcohol, even taking vitamin B1 daily can not improve their bad memory status. So it is best to advise her husband to drink alcohol, not to take vitamin B1 in the state of his home.
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