riboflavin deficiency การใช้

• In riboflavin deficiency, the " curled toes " is a characteristic symptom.
• Differential diagnosis include riboflavin deficiency and avian encephalomyelitis.
• Therefore, riboflavin deficiency is sometimes called " pellagra sine pellagra " ( pellagra without pellagra ), because it causes stomatitis but not widespread peripheral skin lesions characteristic of niacin deficiency.
• Due to interference with iron absorption, even mild to moderate riboflavin deficiency results in an anemia with normal cell size and normal hemoglobin content ( i . e . normochromic normocytic anemia ).
• In 1999, a study found that 17.8 % of males and 22.4 % of females examined in Saudi Arabia suffered from low glutathione reductase activity due to riboflavin deficiency.
• While there he studied a skin disease that was prevalent among local African soldiers and discovered that it was due not to an infection, as had been believed, but to riboflavin deficiency.
• Riboflavin deficiency ( also called ariboflavinosis ) results in stomatitis including painful red tongue with sore throat, chapped and fissured lips ( cheilosis ), and inflammation of the corners of the mouth ( angular stomatitis ).
• Certainly it is more ethical to sell people supplement pills which " might " alleviate a real riboflavin deficiency than to continually sell them products for " chapped lips " which merely grease over the symptoms . ( Though as the article points out, that can also be caused by excessive intake of vitamin A . . . ) talk ) 12 : 52, 22 August 2012 ( UTC)