Can Thiamine Be Taken Orally While Having Skin Test Allergy?

Posted on Fri, 29 May 2015

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Question : Is it possible to give parenteral thiamine to a patient allergic to it by skin test? If so, how?

Answered by Dr. Shafi Ullah Khan (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
All routes available, Administration depends on cause

Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking

I read your question and i understand your concern. Thiamine is vitamin B 1 and is available in all the forms. Skin test allergy does not affect oral intake so the safest and wisest approach of taking thiamine would be oral B complex multivitamins.

If there is alcoholic history long term or wernicke korsakoff syndrome secondary to alcohol then one can think of thiamine but that too for short duration of 3 days to 7 days of 1 gm to 500 gram twice or thrice a day. After this life long oral intake is advised and followed up.

Just talk to your internist and let them decide what is best for you.

I hope it helps. take good care o yourself and dont forget to close the discussion please.

regards
Khan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar