Riboflavin preparation: instructions for use
For many years on vitamin B2 (or riboflavin) medicinedue attention did not pay. But after recent studies, its potential therapeutic properties were appreciated. After all, it can alleviate the condition with the development of severe migraine forms, prevent cataracts, and eliminate skin lesions.
Indications for the use of the drug "Riboflavin" instructions for use are as follows:
- prevention or slowing of cataract development;
- skin defects, which were caused by rosacea.
Use the drug and to reduce the severity and frequency of migraine attacks.
This drug is produced in various forms: capsules, tablets, solutions (liquids) and powders.
Pharmacological effects of pharmaceuticalpreparation "Riboflavin" instructions for use describes this way: this substance is unstable to the action of light. Low consumption of it causes B-vitamin deficiency - a violation often encountered in alcoholics and elderly people.
The medicine is produced both in the form of an independent medicinal product, and in the composition of multivitamins or complexes of B vitamins.
How does a drug act on a person?"Riboflavin"? The instruction for its use suggests such an effect as participation in the production of one of the thyroid hormones, which accelerates the metabolism and ensures the continuity of the energy supply. Also, B2 (riboflavin) promotes the creation of immune cells, and together with iron, this vitamin takes part in the formation of red blood cells, which transport oxygen throughout the body. The described medicine transfers vitamins B6 and B3 into active forms. The drug also takes part in the development of substances that help vitamin E and other powerful antioxidants to protect cells from damaging them with free radicals.
In addition, riboflavin is necessary forrestoration and maintenance of the body tissues in a normal state, acceleration of the wound healing process, including postoperative ones. This vitamin is needed by the body for the normal functioning of the nervous system and eyes. A pharmaceutical product that can cure skin lesions with pink acne, protect the human body from Alzheimer's, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, numbness and tingling in the limbs and skin, stress and fatigue.
Some experts recommend takingof the drug "Riboflavin" in the development of a disease such as sickle cell anemia, arguing that the patients suffering from it have a deficiency of riboflavin. The daily need of men in it is 1.3 milligrams, and for women, 1.1 milligrams.
Signs of vitamin deficiency "Riboflavin" instructions for use lists the following:
- cracking of the skin in the corners of the mouth and the formation of sores there;
- Photosensitivity with lacrimation;
- Itching and burning in the eyes.
In addition, skin peeling may appear on the earlobes, around the nose and under the eyebrows, rashes on the skin in the groin area, the number of erythrocytes, manifested by increased fatigue, may decrease.
Recommendations for the dosage of an effective drug "Riboflavin" instructions for use gives the following:
- for the purpose of preventing cataracts, he is prescribed twenty-five milligrams a day;
- to treat pink acne - fifty milliliters per day;
- with migraine - four hundred and more milligrams per day.
Almost all multivitamin preparations completely cover the daily requirement of the organism in vitamin B2.
Regardless of the form in whichthe drug "Riboflavin" is used (in tablets, capsules, in liquid or in powder), it can not be taken together with alcohol anyway. Admission is also not desirable with oral contraceptives, antibiotics, psychiatric drugs.
