[em2vn]

I was put on a cholesterol lowering drug that contained niacin. The second dose put me in the E.R. with a full blown allergic reaction to the niacin and since that episode I have been treated for high blood pressure.

[metmom]

How do you deal with all the niacin that's in food and all? Could it have been some other ingredient? Food allergy reactions are so hard to pinpoint.

[neverdem]

I was put on a cholesterol lowering drug that contained niacin. The second dose put me in the E.R. with a full blown allergic reaction to the niacin and since that episode I have been treated for high blood pressure.

It sounds like a combination that included niacin which is a vitamin. What makes you think it wasn't the other component? Niacin deficiency is called pellagra.