Vegetarian diet and excessive tea consumption: a dangerous association?

Abstract:

:Rare metabolic diseases may sometimes arise acutely and endanger human life if not immediately recognized and treated. Marchiafava Bignami disease is an uncommon neurologic disorder described in alcohol abusers and characterized by an acute severe damage of brain white matter. Even more rarely, it has been reported in non-alcohol addicted patients, but never in vegetarian people. This is a case report of a young vegetarian woman, accustomed to drink high amounts of tea, who, three weeks after her first natural childbirth, developed serious motor and cognitive disturbances. A timely brain magnetic resonance (MR) allowed us to identify Marchiafava Bignami disease and she healed few hours after the administration of parenteral steroids and vitamins. We advise to suspect Marchiafava Bignami Disease in all patients presenting with non-obvious acute generalized motor and cognitive disturbances, also if non alcoholics, and to collect the nutritional habits in all patients with suspected symptoms. In these cases a timely brain MRI is warranted, since brain imaging is typical and patients may recover after a prompt treatment.

journal_name

Metab Brain Dis

journal_title

Metabolic brain disease

authors

Fiacco F,Barbato L,Pecoraro MG,Maggio P

doi

10.1007/s11011-016-9893-z

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-02-01 00:00:00

pages

271-274

issue

1

eissn

0885-7490

issn

1573-7365

pii

10.1007/s11011-016-9893-z

journal_volume

32

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