Allergic Reaction

Just wanted to relay an experience I had this morning. Yesterday, the chiropractor gave me a sample of a liquid multi vitamin suppliment. Since I know that many surgeons recommend we take liquid forms, I thought I'd give it a try. Well, first of all it tastes horrible, I had to dilute the one ounce sample in an 8 oz glass of water to be able to drink it down. Not two minutes later, my face felt warm and my skin was starting to feel burning and itchy. I looked in the mirror and I was turning red. The lower part of my face, my chest and arms, my hands, my knees and thighs were all bright red. It was 6:30 AM so my Dr's office wasn't even thinking about being open yet. If I had developed breathing difficulty I would have dialed 911 but the reaction seemed to just be the rash and itchiness, but it had me scared for a minute. I checked the label and it is just vitamins and minerals, no herbal anything that might be suspect. As I was waiting for my Dr's office to open, the rash dissapated and went away on it's own. I guess I matabolized whatever it was pretty quickly. I can't help but wonder if it had anything to do with my altered anatomy? Because liquids pass directly into the distal part of our small intestines without any interaction with the normal digestive process, could that be a factor in the reaction? I'm definitely going to ask my surgeon. I will tell the chiropractor about it tomorrow, I would hate for someone to have a worse reaction than I did and him be totally unaware. Not that there's anything he could do about it but I do feel he should be aware.

Just the other day I saw a post on the main messageboard about this very phenomenon after taking some liquid multivitamin - and some responded saying that it was not allergies, but something called NIACIN RUSH. I found some articles about it on the web, such as here: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Niacin-Rush/25985. Apparently this is a common reaction with liquid vitamins. Who knew? I would never have thought of this if I'd not seen the posts on the main board. Some folks there said if you read the fine print on your liquid vitamin bottle, it warns of this "niacin rush" thing. Do you think this might be what you experienced? Just thought I'd pass the info along.