tamiflú (or oseltamivir) is an oral antiviral drug needed prescription and sells the known pharmaceutical Roche. It has the same effect as the inhaler Relenza of GSK, whose actions like the Roche have skyrocketed. But how does? have adverse effects?
Is known by all that there is no medication to prevent common flu and only can treat their symptoms, to deal with a virus and not a bacterium. And thus we sometimes think that there is no treatment for the virus in general. I clarify first of all that is not so, virus and the hepatitis B and C, herpes or HIV are treated with antiviral drugs already long overdue. normally these drugs that are pretty inócuas for the agency operating in two different ways: they prevent the spread of the virus by the agency or to help the immune system. In the first case are known as retroviral, trying to avoid a virus to insert its DNA in a cell and the second is for example the interferon, a charge of signal the immune system proteins that cells are infected.
The tamiflú acts by preventing the virus a the cell to infect, how? destroys the receiver of the cell in which you have to anchor the virus, preventing that it is infected as well.
Their most common adverse effects are the dizziness, headaches, abdominal pain and vomiting s, although countries such as Japan, where it is usually administered have described neurologic problems and psychological disorders such as loss of consciousness, hallucinations and behavior strange.
These cases have occurred especially in Japan and among the child population, which has led to the Ministry of health in this country and to the American FDA does not recommend taking this medicine between aged between 10 and 19 years.
This is not to say that before cases such as swine flu should not be used, but it is recommended to pay particular attention when administered to adolescents or children, it has come to have controversial cases of deaths due to these hallucinations in Japan, which caused great scandal and on which the medical community not yet have a clear opinion.
Tags: Antiviral drugs, influenza
