What Is Wernicke Korsakoff Syndrome – Wet Brain?

The symptoms of "Wet Brain" include:

• Confusion
• An inability to form new memories or retrieve past memories
• Vision problems
• Ataxia (a short stepped but wide stance walk)
• others

Chronic heavy drinkers are at risk of wet brain because:

• They do not get adequate nutrition (they consume most of their energy as alcohol calories, which provides no vitamins
• They suffer gastro-intestinal inefficiencies, leaving them lass able to process vitamins
• They suffer liver damage (B1 is processed in the liver)

Wet brain is treatable with high doses of vitamins in the early stages of the disease. Later stages are incurable.