A top drug expert has warned of a life-threatening complication of weight-loss injections that is little-known among doctors.
A hole in the bowel can be extremely deadly, causing bacteria from the intestine to leak into the abdomen, triggering fatal sepsis.
The condition, which is not officially listed as a side effect of the blockbuster jabs, was revealed this week to be behind the death of 73-year-old grandmother Caroline Savage, who suffered the fatal problem after increasing her dose of Mounjaro.
The inquest into Ms Savage’s death heard that the slimming injections could increase pressure in the intestines in vulnerable people, increasing the risk of
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