Nutrition Facts

Drug addition is a problem which has presence all over the world, may it be a poor and developing country or may it be the most advanced country in the world. To treat drug addiction or to de-addict drug addicts, there are drug addiction treatment centers or drug rehabilitation centers, which also provide rehabilitation to the individuals who are successfully treated for drug addiction.

During drug de-addiction, it is vital importance to provide adequate nutrition. Malnutrition during drug addiction treatment may hamper proper treatment and it may cause failure or it may take much longer time for drug de-addiction than with proper, adequate and balanced nutrition.

If you are resident of Indiana, you may be aware that drug addiction is pretty common (more common than many other States of US) in Indiana due to easy access of the State for the drug traffickers. Due to high drug addiction, the Drug Rehab in Indiana is also better than many States. There are many Indiana Drug Rehab or Indiana Drug Rehabilitation centers in the State which provide good drug de-addiction treatment and also provide rehabilitation after successful treatment of drug addiction.

There are many Indiana Drug Rehab centers which look after all aspects of successful treatment of drug addiction. If you are a resident of Indiana, you can get all the information about drug addiction treatment online. Most of the Indiana Drug Rehabilitation centers provide treatment for all types of addiction such as treatment of cocaine, heroine, marijuana, alcohol and many more.

Deficiency of niacin causes pellagra. Pellagra was once a widespread disease, especially in certain areas. It was highly prevalent in certain poor regions of the world due to malnutrition. At present pellagra has declined significantly throughout the world, but pellagra is still prevalent in some parts of the world like Western parts of Asia and Southern parts of Africa, as in these regions poor people sustain only on maize and little else and in the maize niacin is present in the “bound” form and not available for use by human body. Human body can not free the bound form of niacin from maize.

Pellagra is traditionally a disease of maize eating regions, where maize is the staple diet and it occurs among poor people as they eat mainly maize and very little else and do not get enough niacin from other food sources (as they consume very little of other foods). That is why pellagra is still prevalent in many maize eating areas of the world where poverty is still predominant.

Although pellagra is predominantly a disease of maize eating regions in some parts of India (like in some segment of Telangana area of Andhra Pradesh State of India) pellagra is reported. In a study it was found that the pellagra in that area is due to consumption of Sorghum vulgare (locally known as jowar) as staple diet and traditionally people are pure vegetarians in the area and do not consume milk or foods of other animal origin. In the study it was found that there is excess of an amino acid leucin in Sorghum vulgare or jowar, which cause imbalance in amino acids and excess leucin interfere with conversion of tryptophan to niacin, thereby causing deficiency of niacin and consequently pellagra results.

What are the symptoms of pellagra?

Pellagra is characterized by Diarrhea, Dermatitis and Dementia (loss of memory or unable to remember), classically known as three D’s. Other symptoms of pellagra includes glossitis (inflammation of the tongue and the tongue becomes enlarged), stomatitis (inflammation of the lips which also becomes enlarged) etc. The dermatitis of pellagra occurs only in those areas or parts of the skin which is exposed to sunlight and generally is symmetrical. The common areas where dermatitis occurs in pellagra are face, hands, legs and the back. Along with dementia, other mental changes like irritability, delirium, depression etc. can occur in pellagra.