WERNICKE’S ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A PREGNANT LADY WITH HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM

Wernicke's encephalopathy is a metabolic disorder due to thiamine deficiency. Caseshave been described in situation where nutrition has been compromised .commonly seen in chronic alcoholism. Other conditions associated with Wernicke's encephalopathy include starvation, anorexia nervosa, and malabsorption, hyperemesis gravidarum in pregnancy, AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) patients, patients with malignancy and patients on hemodialysis. Expect in chronic alcoholism, its presences may not be easily recognized. Here we present one such rare occurrence of Wernickes encephalopathy in a pregnant female with hyperemesis gravidarum in second trimester.