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[Forever]

A 14-year old boy in Bucheon committed suicide by leaping from his 6th-floor apartment building. He had been suffering nausea and other symptoms from taking Tamiflu.

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(sorry to those who don't read Korean)

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

In March 2007, Japan's Health Ministry warned that tamiflu should not be given to those aged 10 to 19. The Ministry had previously decided, in May 2004, to change the literature accompanying oseltamivir to include neurological and psychological disorders as possible adverse effects, including: impaired consciousness, abnormal behavior, and hallucinations.[16]

According to Japan's Health Ministry, between 2004 and March 2007, fifteen people aged 10 to 19 have been injured or killed by jumps or fallen from buildings after taking tamiflu, and one 17-year-old died after he jumped in front of a truck. A renewed investigation of the Japanese data was completed in April 2007. It found that 128 patients had been reported to behave abnormally after taking tamiflu since 2001. Forty-three of them were under 10 years old, 57 patients were aged 10 to 19, and 28 patients were aged 20 or over. Eight people, including five teens and three adults, had died from these actions.

In April 2007, South Korea issued a safety warning against prescribing tamiflu to teenagers except in special cases

[blackjack]

Just had a look at this, over 50,000,000 people have used tamiflu. Japan uses 60% of the worlds supply of tamiflu, so that makes it 30,000,000.

128 patients behaved abnormally, which is 0.00047% of people behaviour changed, while 0.000027% of people died from a change in behaviour.

[Jeonmunka]

I am no advocate of Tamiflu. I think it is a bit of a have that everybody must get it. Surely injecting the patients will suffice.
My own kids got it as I couldn't find any reputable documentation that it is harmful. Lots of sites and people say it is. But, evidence is completely lacking.

Anyway, I do wonder if the boy's suicide would have taken place regardless of the injection.

[tzechuk]

[crossmr]

For me Tamiflu was strong and worked well. I felt weird, almost drunk, but it was because I took it on an almost empty stomach. As soon as I ate some food I felt better.

After that I took each dose on a full stomach. Never had anymore problems. I think doctors are only supposed to be giving tamiflu to teenagers in emergencies. Is relenza available here? I read on a swine flu page that both tamiflu and relenza (I think that one) worked for it.