Riboflavin-B2

Looking at all these vitamin names and abbreviations as well as medical names you certainly wonder: "What is riboflavin/vitamin b2? What does it do for our body?

Vitamin b2 or also called riboflavin belongs to the water soluble vitamin b group. Vitamin b2 helps with healthy hair, skin and nails, is necessary for normal cell growth and vitamin b2 is important for the eye by maintaining good vision.

As with most other vitamins dangers of riboflavin include vitamin deficiencies or overdoses. A vitamin b2 overdose can lead to the following symptoms: nausea, anemia, fatigue, vomiting and low blood pressure. Though vitamin b2 overdoses are rare, because the orally taken riboflavin dissolves very slowly and normally gets excreted in the urine, they can happen if toxic doses are given through shots. Ribofalvin deficiencies can lead to a disease called ariboflavinosis. Symptoms of riboflavin deficiency include light sensitivity, dizziness, cracked/inflamed lips and tongue and insomnia. Vitamin b2 deficiency usually doesn't occur by itself but as a combination of multiple nutrients deficiency.

As with any other vitamin out there riboflavin manufacturers can offer you any and all versions of the vitamin b2 supplement and are also deeply involved in different studies for treatments.

Riboflavin supplements have long been used for phototherapy such as to cure infants from neonatal jaundice. More recently discovered are the riboflavin news referring to headaches/migraines. It might be a useful additive and together with beta-blockers, riboflavin might be able to treat migraine headaches. Another good use of riboflavin has its research still going on. but it seems that riboflavin might improve blood safety by reducing dangerous cells like viruses, parasites and bacteria in transfusion blood when light is applied.

A very innovative use of this vitamin is the use of riboflavin in cleaners. Through its ability to glow under U.V. light is can show under such testing conditions if the whole area was cleaned in critical cleaning applications. This luminescent is also used as a fact for reduced riboflavin, which is version of riboflavin used in medical applications for a slightly longer glowing than the regular natural form.

Some study showed that Vitamin B2 helped improving the skin, if taken either orally or by injection it can improve the skin's resistance to a certain kind of skin mite that is connected to rosacea. Other uses of riboflavin for example are geared towards eyesight. The disease keratoconus that can weaken parts of the cornea can be treated through CrossLinking (corneal collagen crosslinking with riboflavin), which has been proven to strengthen the weak corneal structure.