Tamiflu is one of the fastest selling antiviral medicines used to treat cases of flu. In fact, it is so popular that you can hardly find it on shelves these days. Many children diagnosed with symptoms of flu are given Tamiflu by E.R.’s. However, new reports of Tamiflu side effects has many parents questioning the practice of giving Tamiflu to children at all.
Hallucinations, speech issues, confusion, and poor motor function have been named as just a few of the potential Tamiflu side effects that could potentially affect a child who takes the medicine. Many children have already experienced these issues.
According to Fox 5 our of Missouri’s Ozark region.
The Wallens say their 2-year-old son, Steven, was twitching, hallucinating, and slamming his head in pain after taking the medicine after being diagnosed with the flu.
“When I walked in the room I was greeted with him slapping me across the face, and then continually smacking his head into the pillow saying ‘ouch, ouch, ouch,'” says Andrea Wallen, Steven’s mother.
In just recent days, reports of a 16-year-old from Indiana taking his own life while taking Tamiflu after being diagnosed with the flu. And in Texas, a 6-year-old girl began hallucinating, ran away from school, and tried to jump out a window after taking the medicine.
One family in Indiana is blaming Tamiflu for their son’s suicide.
Many pharmacists admit that Tamiflu is causing the issues, even going so far as to say that the side effects seemed to stop after ceasing use of the medication, but they do still recommend taking it for the flu.
Erica Mahn with Alps Pharmacy in Springfield says there is only about 2 percent of children are affected.
“There are situations where kiddos can have that feeling, that obviously they’re not used to and can’t tell you about, but they think something is happening and it’s really not and that’s what this medication can have happen,” says Mahn.
This year, Mahn says they’ve dispensed more Tamiflu than in the last 6 years. And for Steven, his mother says his behavior got better after she stopped giving it to him.
“And it probably wasn’t until later that evening where I started to see himself again,” says Wallen. “Where he would actually let me hold him.”
My 1-year-old was prescribed this about 3 months ago when she had the flu. We had given her only 3 doses before she started not acting herself. She was smashing her head on the floor over and over, swatting and pointing at stuff that wasnt there, cried for hours and hours, smacked in my face and her face. She pulled patches of her hair out. That was one of the hardest things ever, watching my baby suffer like that and knowing that we’d just have to let it pass. I called her dr and they just told me to stop giving it to her if we felt it was harming her. I can’t believe nothing else was done. That was terrifying to watch your baby to go through that.
Horrifying drug reaction side effect that your DOCTOR ignored. We hope she’s better now.
My son could have died at 5 wks of age with the flu . he was rushed by ambulance and was given the tamiflu oral liquid to help fight the flu and keep his airway open. He is now 9 an A student , happy healthy active amazing boy !
We’re glad he recovered. According to the CDC, if a child is younger than 3 months old, use of oseltamivir (tamiflu) for chemoprophylaxis is not recommended unless the situation is judged critical due to limited data in this age group. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/antivirals/summary-clinicians.htm
Vaccinations are not only unproven, unsafe and not effective, they are incredibly dangerous! They contain, among other ingriedients, neurotoxins methyl mercury, aluminum lake, MSG, formaldehyde and others. Also: aborted human fetal tissue ( autoimmune diseases, anyone?), propylene glycol ( antifreeze), peanut oil ( peanut allergies?), Glyphosate ( herbacide) ( causes autism), GMOs ( cancer, Immune Dysfunction) and other noxious, immoral and toxic ingriedients. Contagious diseases were on the decline, mostly due to better sanitation and nutrition as well as the immune systems fantastic ability to adapt to pathogens and an ever changing environment. See. healtherootcause.com
My son was givin tamiflu to treat influenza and now my son has seizures even after stopping the meds! Do not give this to your children. My son has alot of mental problems now after takeing this med and like i said hes still haveing seizures
Here is the link to a study published in the Indian J Pharmacol. 2015 Jan-Feb; 47(1): 11–16., doi: 10.4103/0253-7613.150308 — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375804/ It is very informative and worth the read!
My 21yo disabled son was given it a couple of weeks ago. He vomited, was shaking all through his body, cross eyed and woke in some sort of terrified state.
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