Blood pressure meds causing refractory celiac!

[1desperateladysaved]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344475/

[cyclinglady]

No, the article states that Olmesarton, a blood pressure medication, can cause villi damage.  The kind of damage common to celiacs.   (As a result patients were not getting better on the gluten-free diet because celiac disease was not the cause).  For those patients without a positive on the celiac panel, but a positive on their biopsies, doctor’s might look to see if they have been in this drug.

Many things can damage intestinal villi:

https://www.cureceliacdisease.org/faq/what-else-can-cause-damage-to-the-small-intestine-other-than-celiac-disease/

In my opinion, the lesson here is that that NO drug is without side effects and risks.  Each drug must be carefully weighed by both the patient and doctor.  Read those drug inserts!  

[kareng]

2 hours ago, 1desperateladysaved said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344475/

Medications causing Celiac?  Not sure where you got that from.  The first line of the article you link to says “mimics”, Not “causes”.  

“Olmesartan-induced enteropathy mimics celiac disease clinically and pathologically.”

 

[GFinDC]

Interesting article!  I imagine there are a lot of people out there taking olmesartan who would benefit from reading it.

[Posterboy]

1DesperateLadySaved,

It actually can be all the "Artan" class of BP medicine's not just olmesartan.

I had a similar experience with Losartan.

See this thread about this topic.

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/119462-what-else-can-cause-villi-blunting-has-any-body-had-expereince-with-losartan-and-villi-blunting/

and here is the research that indicates the other "sartan" BP medicines in villous atrophy.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.14176

they called it "sprue‐like enteropathy associated with angiotensin II receptor blockers other than olmesartan"

I hope it is helpful so ....other's who might be taking this BP class of medicine my be helped and don't know it could also be causing "poor control" IE still having villi blunting despite a gluten-free diet.  . . .but it is not medical advice....but it was my experience.

But I poorly tolerate most medicines. ..this was not my only bad reaction to medicines . ..but one of my biggest surprises!

Posterboy,