| Show doctors discover cause of lip lesions name coined for it in the future when biby refuses to eat cat her spirl AW mother may be heard ir against the dangers gerlof of i that is if she aall p pronounce r on ounce two d doctors actors of the national institute of bf 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 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 ribo davin in the diet according to their experiments one of the vitamin B group riboflavin is widely distributed in nature in such foo foods is as milk and other d dairy airy products meat eggs and green leafy vegetables liver and dried brewers yeast also are good sources of the vitamin the effect of the lack of the vitamin on human beings was determined from an experiment in which 18 women were given a daily ration of cornmeal cowpeas cow peas lard casein flour white bread calcium carbonate tomato juice cod liver oil syrup and syrup of iodide or iron later the diet was supplemented by crystals containing sources of vitamin C and bl BI to make sure the patients suffering from any vitamin deficiency except riboflavin ten of the 18 women developed lesions in the lips in 94 to days after the beginning of the expert experiment in most of these cases the symptoms disappeared five to six days after the inclusion of the riboflavin vitamin in their diet the doctors said that meeting the daily human requirement of riboflavin difficult A milligram of the vitamin is all needed daily to fotes tall |
