FDA Approves Neurotoxic Flu Drug For Infants Less Than One
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Also from the article you quoted:
"Infants do not yet have a sufficiently developed blood-brain barrier capable of keeping the chemical out of their rapidly developing brains.
Their detoxification systems are not sufficiently developed to remove the chemical rapidly enough to prevent harm
The FDA's decision to include infants under one as treatable with Tamiflu is all the more disturbing when you consider that a 2010 study published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal found that of 157 evaluable infants (mean age 6.3 months) treated for influenza with Tamiflu, complications due to the medication were found in the majority (54%) of the treated group.
According to the study
Complications were recorded in 84 patients (54%), the most serious of which were meningitis in 1 infant (1%), pneumonia in 9 (6%), and otitis media in 2 (1%)."
Will this insanity never end? I do so hope that parents inform themselves before administering this drug, or any drug. I really don't know how the FDA can do this.
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