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To: 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.

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.

24 posted on 01/23/2007 7:25:18 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

Because, since that event I get pretty red from eating foodstuffs containing niacin.


34 posted on 01/23/2007 8:26:46 PM PST by em2vn
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