{"id":98028,"date":"2019-10-31T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/severe-vision-loss-from-niacin-vitamin-b3-can-be-reversed"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:03:35","slug":"severe-vision-loss-from-niacin-vitamin-b3-can-be-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/severe-vision-loss-from-niacin-vitamin-b3-can-be-reversed","title":{"rendered":"Severe Vision Loss From Niacin (Vitamin B3) Can Be Reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/severe-vision-loss-from-niacin-vitamin-b3-can-be-reversed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I Believe it is the Sun-damaged parts of the body that cause the so-termed hives of Niacin. I knew this without seeing data on such I when taking my Niacin {even very small doses as I take averaging about 75 mg every other day} causes a disturbance in my eyes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind clinical report, retina specialists at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) have shown that severe vision loss from a self-prescribed high dose of over-the-counter niacin is linked to injury of a specific cell type in a patient\u2019s eye. The experts report that discontinuing the vitamin led to reversal of the condition and have <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/2474126419877567\">published their findings<\/a> in the fall issue of <em>Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is used for lowering hyperlipidemia or cholesterol and comes in prescription and over-the-counter forms; it can produce a rare toxic reaction called niacin-induced cystoid maculopathy, a form of retinal swelling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJust because nutritional supplements are available without prescription does not mean they are completely safe to use without supervision.\u201d \u2014 Jessica Lee, MD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Believe it is the Sun-damaged parts of the body that cause the so-termed hives of Niacin. I knew this without seeing data on such I when taking my Niacin {even very small doses as I take averaging about 75 mg every other day} causes a disturbance in my eyes. In a first-of-its-kind clinical report, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}