What Is Your Experience of Tamiflu or Relenza?
Question by Worried: What is your experience of Tamiflu or Relenza?
Have you taken Tamiflu or Relenza for swine flu?
What, if any, side effects did you experience?
How long did you feel unwell – from the flu or side effects?
Do you feel you made the right decision taking it?
Best answer:
Answer by M A SALAM
•More than half of the children in England taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu capsule / pill (Roche -oseltamivir) suffer side-effects such as nausea, insomnia and nightmares, delirium, psychosis and hallucinations.
•The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which found 103 cases of “neuropsychiatric adverse events”, including the DEATHS of a 17-year-old boy who was killed after jumping in front of a truck and a 14-year-old boy who fell after climbing on a balcony railing.
•The government says about 150,000 people in England have received Tamiflu via the National Pandemic Flu Service, which was launched last week.
•Pharmaceutical company wrote to US doctors warning that “people with the flu, particularly children, may be at an increased risk of self-injury and confusion shortly after taking Tamiflu and should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behaviour”.
•Tamiflu : 40% reported gastrointestinal problems including nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach pain and cramps, while 18% reported a “neuropsychiatric side-effect” such as poor concentration, inability to think clearly, problems sleeping, feeling dazed or confused, bad dreams or nightmares and “behaving strangely.
•The most common side-effects for Relenza (GlaxoSmithKline – zanamivir) inhaler – which is being given to pregnant women – include a cough and ear, nose and throat infections.
•Three Japanese adults committed suicide while on Tamiflu while five children died. Since 1999, when Relenza was approved, there have been 115 reports of psychiatric events, of which 74 were children.
“ALL DRUGS HAVE SIDE-EFFECTS. IT IS ALWAYS A CASE OF DECIDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN BENEFITING A PATIENT FROM A TREATMENT AND THE SIDE-EFFECTS.”
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