Do People with Interstitial Cystitis Need to Avoid Vitamin B6?

In the last blog post, I discussed whether people with interstitial cystitis need to avoid vitamin C.  Today’s post is going to focus on a very similar topic:  do people with interstitial cystitis need to avoid vitamin B6? To reuse my introduction from last time, I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion among interstitial cystitis sufferers about vitamin B6 and whether or not it should be avoided.  I hope to clear up some of that confusion today!The succinct answer is that people with IC do not need to avoid foods that are naturally high in vitamin B6.  They might wish to avoid foods artificially fortified with vitamin B6.  They should avoid supplements that use the pyridoxine form of vitamin B6.  And they may or may not need to avoid supplements that use the P5P form of B6.  If that’s all you wanted to know, you can stop reading…