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Originally Posted by n david
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Yikes. I would NOT take Tamiflu. It's a terrible, terrible drug. The BBC did a story on how ineffective it is against the flu. Not only does it not work most of the time, the side affects are awful. Kids have had mental breakdowns after taking this drug. Hallucinations, etc.
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Nearly EVERYTHING we can take as medicine has side effects and severe ones on certain people.
The BBC did not do a study. Someone else did and the BBC reported on it.
Its UK medical director, Dr Daniel Thurley, told the BBC News website: "The definitive piece of research stands as the randomised control trials, which were shared with the regulators, which led to them in 100 countries around the world approving Tamiflu for treatment and prevention of flu."
He said the Cochrane group had used the wrong statistics, which "systematically underestimate the benefits" of the drug, and used "unorthodox" methods to analyse the side-effects.
He concluded: "One of the challenges we have here is actually knowing what they've done."
Prof Wendy Barclay, who researches the influenza virus at Imperial College London, said reducing symptoms in children by 29 hours would be "pretty beneficial".
She told the BBC: "Tamiflu works as well as any drug we have now or [that] is on the cards.
"Yes, I think they should replenish the stockpile. What else can you do if a pandemic strikes? We won't have a vaccine for the first six months."
Continue reading the main storyProf Kevin McConway Open University
She also questioned the validity of the research as it analysed the impact during seasonal flu: "If it works a little bit in season flu, the chances are they'll work quite a lot better in a pandemic situation and get more people back to school and work."
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26954482