Avoid Tamiflu use in children

Martyr

Children should not be given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu because its harms outweigh any benefits, researchers said today.

Irish Times
BBC News

As someone pointed out before, Tamiflu was banned in Japan 2007

One of the most disturbing cases was in February 2004 when a 17-year old boy took one capsule of Tamiflu at his home in Gifu prefecture, central Japan. No one was at home to witness what happened next, but he appears to have left the house in his pyjamas, walked barefoot through a snowstorm, climbed over two fences and stepped in front of an oncoming truck. The driver told police that he was smiling at the moment of impact.

Times online

I am wondering if there's any point taking Tamiflu at all.

indough

well if youre not a child then you should be ok with it

anyway, youre not really supposed to take it unless you are in th most at risk group (those with underlying illness) and have already contracted the virus (im sure nearly everyone knows at this stage its not a preventative measure)

Cookie_Monster

Just avoid swine flu, problem solved.

WillieCocker

thecommander

What's the conspiracy?

indough

thecommander wrote: »

What's the conspiracy?

its probably the usual 'big pharma is gonna force us to take dangerous medicine we dont need' type thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir

Well for one it's not banned in Japan.
It's only banned for children.

And they're not hiding the possible side effects.

In November 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the warning label to include the possible side effects of delirium, hallucinations, or other related behavior.[19] This went further than the FDA's previous pronouncement, from a year before, that there was insufficient evidence to claim a causal link between oseltamivir use and the deaths of 12 Japanese children (only two were from neurological problems, although more have died since then).[20] The change to a more cautionary stance was attributed to 103 new reports that the FDA received of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior, mostly involving Japanese patients, received between August 29, 2005 and July 6, 2006. This was an increase from the 126 similar cases logged between the drug's approval in 1999 and August 2005.[21]

I fail to see the conspiracy.
Except the usual baseless scaremongering from the anti-science crowd.

6th

I dont see a CT? OP, Pm me if you want this unlocked.