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An alcoholic patient presents with fatigue, leg paralysis, edema in the legs and nerve damage.
What is the most likely vitamin deficiency in this patient?

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is one of the options vitamin c?
if yes, then that one
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This alcoholic patient is deficient of Thiamine (vitamin B1)

Overview of Thiamine (vitamin B1)

Thiamine (vitamin B1) is is one of the water-soluble B vitamins that majorly contributes to the functioning of the nervous system together with the  growth, development and functioning of the entire body.

it can  be gotten from foods such as:

  • chicken
  • yeast
  • liver
  • browqn rice
  • asparagus etc.

Deficiency of Vitamin B 1 causes  

  • beriberi
  • nerve diseases
  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS)
  • heart disease and other conditions

Thus, An alcoholic patient  with fatigue, leg paralysis, edema in the legs and nerve damage is deficient of  Vitamin B 1 , Thiamine.

Learn more about Thiamine and its deficiency here:https://brainly.com/question/9744216