Magenta tongue

The deficiency syndrome is characterized by sore throat, hyperemia, edema of the pharyngeal and oral mucous membranes, cheilosis, angular stomatitis, glossitis (magenta tongue), seborrheic dermatitis, and normochromic, normocytic anemia associated with pure red blood cell aplasia of the bone marrow. However, some of these symptoms, such as glossitis and dermatitis, when encountered in the field may have resulted firom other complicating deficiencies. 

Signs of riboflavin deficiency include cheilosis, angular stomatitis,magenta tongue,and localized seborrheic der-matitis.Some of these conditions may be due to concurrent deficiency of other B-complex vitamins, since it is diffi-... 

Riboflavin deficiency is characterized by lesions of the margin of the lips (cheilosis) and corners of the mouth (angular stomatitis), a painful desquamation of the tongue, so that it is red, dry and atrophic (magenta tongue), and a seborrhoeic dermatitis, with filiform excrescences. 

Riboflavin (B ) FADIHj) Dehydrogenases Many Corneal neovascularization Cheilosis or stomatitis (cracking or scaling of lip borders and corners of the mouth) Magenta-colored tongue... 

Adeficiency of riboflavin is rare in the United States. When it does occur, it presents as pallor and maceration of the mucosa of the mouth and vermillion surfaces of the lips. The tongue may become magenta. Cutaneous lesions can occur at various sites in the body and eye problems may develop. 

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) Liver, wheat germ, eggs, milk, green leafy vegetables, meat Magenta-colomed tongue, fissiuing at the comers of mouth and lips, dermatitis. 

Riboflavin deficiency is characterized by a sore mouth and burning ancLitching eyes. Fissures may appear atTthe corners of the mouth, and the tongue may become magenta colored. —... 

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