Your Side Effects May IncludeJardiance side effects
empagliflozin
This side effect is printed on the FDA label for Jardiance. It was a question in our daily quiz, where you pick the real side effect from four choices.
A rare flesh-eating infection of the groin
A diabetes pill that can, rarely, cause a flesh-eating infection down there. Yes, really.
“necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum (Fournier's gangrene, a rare life-threatening infection requiring urgent surgical intervention), have occurred in patients with and without diabetes mellitus receiving SGLT2 inhibitors, including JARDIANCE”
Get medical help fast for pain, tenderness, redness or swelling in the genital area along with a fever.
265 reports to the FDA's adverse event system mention Fournier's gangrene or necrotizing fasciitis. A report is not proof the drug caused it. See the query
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