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Show Doctors Discover Cause of Lip Lesions; Ariboflavinosis, Name Coined for It In the future when baby refuses to eat her spinach. Mother may be heard warning her against the dangers dan-gers of ariboflavinosis that is, if she can pronounce. Two doctors of the National Institute Insti-tute of Health, Drs. W. H. Sebrell and R. E. Butler, adopted the word which they admit is "unfortunate" but the best one they could think of to describe the disease, says the Washington Star. Ariboflavinosis, they reported, is the cause of lip lesions, which had been marked in various parts of the world but the cause of which had never been determined. The disease is due to the absence of riboflavin in the diet, according to their experiments. One of the vitamin B group, riboflavin is widely wide-ly distributed in nature in such foods as milk and other dairy products, meat, eggs and green leafy vegetables. vegeta-bles. Liver and dried brewer's yeast also are good sources of the vitamin. vita-min. The effect of the lack of the vitamin vita-min on human beings was determined deter-mined from an experiment in which 13 women wprp given a daily ration of cornmeal, cowpeas, lard, .casein, flour, white bread, calcium carbonate, carbon-ate, tomato juice, cod liver oil, syrup and syrup of iodide or iron. Later, the diet was supplemented by crystals containing sources of vitamin vita-min C and Bl to make sure the patients weren't suffering from any vitamin deficiency except riboflavin. Ten of the 18 women developed lesions in the lips in 94 to 130 days after the beginning of the experiment. experi-ment. In most of these cases, the symptoms disappeared five to six days after the inclusion of the riboflavin ribo-flavin vitamin in their diet The doctors said that meeting the daily human requirement of riboflavin ribo-flavin isn't difficult. A milligram of the vitamin is all that's needed daily to forestall ariboflavinosis. |
