A number of different diabetes drugs have been connected with a flesh-eating infection. Reports to the FDA suggest that these damaging infections could be among Qtern side effects and those of similar diabetes drugs.

As with all medications, patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes carefully consider the risks and possible advantages of taking a drug. These decisions are made after evaluating the prescription information provided to them by the manufacturing company.

While all medications carry some form of risk for the patients taking them, the users of Qtern and other diabetes drugs may not have been properly warned about a risk for genital infections in the drug’s marketing material or the prescription information. Instead, patients may learn about the risk too late.

The reported diabetes drug flesh eating infection has already been identified in 12 patients including one who passed away.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently warning doctors and the public about possible Qtern side effects because in rare but serious cases, diabetes medications known as SGLT2 inhibitors have been linked to a flesh eating bacterial infection of the genitals known as Fournier’s gangrene.

Those patients who began experiencing these infections between March 2013 and May 2018 involved 7 men and 5 women who were hospitalized and had to undergo surgery for the condition. The SGLT2 inhibitor family of diabetes medications includes Qtern and many other drugs that could be implicated in cases like these.

Urinary tract infections, for example, are a known side effect. This class of medications helps to lower a patient’s blood sugar levels through the kidneys and the excess sugar then gets excreted via the urine. Other affected drugs included by the FDA’s warning include Jardiance, Farxiga and Invokana.

These are SGLT-2 inhibitors that were approved between 2013 and 2016. The FDA reviewed all other classes of diabetes drugs over the past three decades and identified only six cases of the condition, all affecting men.

The potential Qtern side effects are extremely rare but also very serious. Diabetics currently using these drugs should be aware of side effects such as swelling of the genitals, redness in the genitals, or tenderness.

Furthermore, any diabetes patient using these medications who develops a fever of 100.4F should get medical attention because these symptoms can get worse very quickly.

It is critical to get medical attention right away to address the issue. Many of the patients who have already been affected by Fournier’s gangrene have had to undergo surgery and hospitalization. All of the drugs in the SGLT-2 class, except the most recently approved, have been connected to the condition.

The FDA says that these manufacturers must add details about the risks to the prescribing information and medicine guides given to the patients. Some of the patients who have already experienced side effects that developed into a diabetes flesh eating infection are speaking with attorneys about participating in a diabetes medication lawsuit investigation.

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The type-2 diabetes medications linked to the flesh-eating infection include:

• Invokana
• Invokamet/Invokamet XR
• Farxiga
• Xigduo XR
• Qtern
• Jardiance
• Glyxambi
• Synjardy/Synjardy XR
• Steglato
• Segluromet
• Steglujan

If you or a loved one took one of the type-2 diabetes medications listed above and suffered from a flesh-eating genital infection, you may qualify to join this diabetes medication lawsuit investigation. Fill out the FREE form on this page for more information.

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