B Complex Syrups

Vitamin B complex plays a vital role in maintaining good health and well-being. As the building blocks of a healthy body, B vitamins have a direct impact on your energy levels, brain function, and cell metabolism. Vitamin B complex helps prevent infections and helps promote cell health, growth of red blood cells, energy levels, good eyesight, healthy brain function, good digestion, healthy appetite, proper nerve function, hormones and cholesterol production, cardiovascular health, muscle tone and more.

Vitamin B complex are especially important for women who are pregnant and breastfeeding. These vitamins aid in fetal brain development as well as reduce the risk of birth defects. Also for expectant mothers, B vitamins go a long way in boosting energy levels, easing nausea, and lowering the risk of developing preeclampsia.

If you are taking a B complex syrup on a regular schedule and somehow miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose. Take your next dose at the regular time. By no means never double the dose just to catch up.

Eating a balanced diet ensures that you get all the B vitamins. However, it is still possible to be deficient of the vitamins and the following symptoms may be a sign that can tell you that you are not getting enough B vitamins: skin rashes, cracks around the mouth, scaly skin on the lips, swollen tongue, fatigue, weakness, anemia, confusion, irritability or depression, nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, constipation, and numbness or tingling in the feet and hands. However if you are experiencing any of these symptoms take an appointment with a doctor before self-starting a Vitamin B complex syrup.

If a person is deficient in B vitamins for a long period, she/he may experience a range of symptoms and if left untreated, it could increase the risk of developing anemia, digestive issues, skin conditions, infections, peripheral neuropathy. Especially, chronic Vitamin B-12 deficiency can increase a person’s risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. In fact, babies born to women who were deficient in B vitamins during pregnancy are more likely to have birth defects.

There are countless foods that contain B vitamins, and consuming these foods can ensure that you get enough Vitamin B complex from your diet itself. The most common natural sources of B vitamins are: milk, cheese, eggs, liver and kidney, meat, such as chicken and red meat, fish, dark green vegetables, beets, avocados, potatoes, whole grains and cereals, kidney beans, black beans, chickpeas, nuts and seeds, fruits, soy products, etc.

Very unlikely. You are unlikely to get too much vitamin B complex both from your diet and because of taking some B complex syrup. The reason why you can’t get too much of B complex vitamins is because they are water soluble and are not stored in your body. So any excess B vitamins will be excreted in your urine daily.

There are various symptoms of an overdose of vitamin B complex including, excessive thirst, skin conditions, blurry vision, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, increased urination, diarrhea and skin flushing.

Since direct contact with heat, air and light can damage your vitamin B complex syrups, it is a good practice to store your syrup in a cool place away from direct sunlight and in a safe place out of children’s reach. Usually vitamin B complex syrups should be kept at room temperature between 68ºF and 77ºF (20ºC and 25ºC).