Benicar Side Effects May Include Gluten Intolerance Symptoms

According to Mayo Clinic researchers and the FDA, the common hypertension medication Benicar may cause severe gluten intolerance symptoms in some people. I’ve mentioned this before on this site and to my newsletter subscribers, but since people are starting to file lawsuits, I thought I’d remind readers of this potential hidden cause of their symptoms. For the record, the lawsuits are not settled, won or lost yet, so I’m not implying guilt on the part of Benicar’s manufacturer, which is global pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo. Specifically, the hypertension drug Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) can cause sprue-like enteropathy, which mimics celiac disease.

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