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    Saturday, October 17, 2009

    REVIEW SUGGESTS H1N1 FLU DRUGS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12.

    A review of research published in the British Medical Journal found that children "under the age of 12 shouldn't be given the common antivirals Tamiflu [oseltamivir] or Relenza [zanamivir] to treat suspected A/H1N1 swine flu." Dr. Matthew Thomson, one of the report's authors, "said giving Tamiflu or Relenza to children under 12 reduces the length of the illness by an average of one day, which he described as a 'short effect for an illness that lasts about a week.'" Dr. Thomson also said that antivirals "could do more harm than good."

    The Oxford University researchers "also concluded that giving the drugs to children after they have been exposed to the flu virus -- post-exposure prophylaxis -- reduces transmission by only eight percent. The researchers "studied four separate randomized trials (two with Tamiflu and two with Relenza) that treated 1,766 children with the flu and three trials of post-exposure prophylaxis involving 863 children." They "concluded that, despite shortening the duration of infection, the drugs did not reduce the normal complications of flu, including asthma flareups, ear infections, sinusitis, bronchitis, and convulsions from fever."


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