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Why we give glucose after thiamine in wernicke encephalopathy?
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Disproven: This has supposedly been debunked in some articles. But the theory is that if a thiamine deficient patient is given glucose this would deplete further thiamine stores and further worsen wernickes.
Answered 9/13/2013
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