The preparation "Riboflavin": instructions for use

For many years, vitamin B2 (or riboflavin) did not pay much attention to medicine. But after recent studies of 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 medicine is produced in various forms: capsules, tablets, solutions (liquids) and powders.

Pharmacological effects of the pharmaceutical preparation "Riboflavin" instructions for use describes this way: this substance is unstable to light. Low intake of it causes B-vitamin deficiency - a disorder often found in alcoholics and elderly people.

The medication is produced both in the form of an independent medicinal product, and in the composition of multivitamins or complexes of B vitamins.

How does the Riboflavin drug work on humans? 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 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 needed to restore and maintain the body tissues in a normal state, accelerate the healing process, including postoperative wounds. 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 rosacea, protect the human body from Alzheimer's, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, numbness and tingling in the limbs and skin, stress and fatigue.

Some experts recommend the use of 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.

Symptoms of vitamin F deficiency "Riboflavin" instructions for use lists the following:

- cracking of the skin in the corners of the mouth and the formation of ulcers;

- 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 migraines - 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 which the drug "Riboflavin" is used (in tablets, in capsules, in liquid or in powder), it still can not be taken together with alcohol. Admission is also not desirable with oral contraceptives, antibiotics, psychiatric drugs.