Half the kids given Tamiflu experience side effects

[Franky]

Just over half of all children who take the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares.

29 percent experienced nausea, 20 percent had stomach pain or cramps, and 12 percent had problems sleeping. A fifth of children had “neuropsychiatric" side-effects, such as an inability to think clearly, nightmares, or “behaving strangely”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/Swine_flu/article6734056.ece

[John]

Yes, it's obviously better to avoid this bug in the first place!

Hand-washing (http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5725QL20090804?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&sp=true) and face masks (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161332.htm) are effective in this regard, and vitamin C and other natural alternatives (http://www.patrickholford.com/index.php/blog/blogarticle/can_vitamin_c_kill_swine_flu/#When:05:24:06Z) are also invaluable.

Here are simple guidelines (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/04/Warning-Swine-Flu-Vaccine-Coming-Soon.aspx) for avoiding all types of flu, plus a warning about the downside of the swine flu vaccines that are now in production.

[bridewolf]

my four children were put on tamiflu when they all got the swine flu. not offically confirmed, but have to say, it looked like the swine flu, and certainly sounded like the swine flu.

what i can say is that the list of so called side effects of the tamiflu are really not worth even blinking at, the actual illness is really nasty.

in general , apart from allergic child, other three kids are very , very , healthy, one , had never had antibiotics in his life, another has had one dose at 2, and older one , 3x at 1yr.
now are 18/16/14/11yrs
robust in the extreme, older boys 6ft 2 and 6ft 7 , ..............but the flu completely knocked them of their feet.
i have never seen them that ill. and the full range of symptoms , violent vomiting , and high , high temps. unable to walk unassisted (difficult when i am much shorter than them) , all four kids at once with high temps, needing bowls to vomit, and help to toilet.
trying to get them to drink more water, and all falling asleep, only to wake with higher temps, shivering etc.........................yeah, it was rough.
thankfully me and hubby had the jab week previously, and sailed through this without any sign of illness.

younger two , recovered quickly, and allergic son, was not as ill as the other kids.

can agree its best not to get it, and more ironically, was going to get egg allergic son vaccinated, but they had to order it and it took too long to come and he caught the flu.
however, because the flu was not confirmed , doc recommended the jab.
which caused no problems with after effects for egg allergic son. did for us, but not for him.

[John]

Hi bridewolf

As you have said in another post, "life is one big gamble", but there are sometimes things you can do to hedge your bets and, so far as flu is concerned, one of them is taking vitamin D. To which end, the following links may be of interest to you.

Vitamin D deficiency is why you get flu and other infections (http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Vitamins/vitamin_d_deficiency_is_why_you_get_flu_0703100554 .html) (Danish research)

Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7061778.ece) (Japanese research)

and for more considered and detailed comment by the undoubted authority on this topic, Dr John Cannell, Director of the Vitamin D Council:

H1N1 Flu and Vitamin D (http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/h1n1-flu-and-vitamin-d.shtml)