Tamiflu become so in demand at yesterday's swine flu outbreak. Besides treating bird flu (H5N1), this drug is also believed can overcome swine flu (H1N1).
But recently, an extreme news herd due to this drug usage. A 19 years old girl in England has to struggle with blindness after taking Tamiflu. The teenage girl named Samantha Millard left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today.
She became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the advice of the controversial NHS helpline.
Within 72 hours of taking three pills, doctors put her on life support.Samantha spent a month in hospital after developing the life-threatening Stevens Johnson syndrome, which causes the skin to peel off, and later developed toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, which has damaged her sight.
As quoted in Dailymail (21/01/2010) her devastated mother is now seeking legal advice about the information given out by the NHS swine fllu helpline. She believes that Tamiflu has not been tested thoroughly enough.
Samantha, of Bicester in Oxfordshire, had taken just three of the 10 tablets when she broke out in a red rash.
Within hours, her body was covered in painful blisters which were so severe her long hair had to be shaved off.
She was rushed to hospital, where tests later revealed that she never actually contracted the swine flu virus.
Samantha is now in very deeply sadness. She cannot do anything by herself or even she cannot cry because she has no tears anymore instead she never knows when her eyes will be healing. She also has to put an eye cream hourly.
Actually Stephen Johnson syndrome is very rare reaction for Tamiflu usage.
In other side the swine flu outbreak itself now become a controversy. A leading health expert also claimed that the outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare.
Whatever the facts opened later, we all hope Samantha will be heals soon so that she can get her “normal life”.
Source: Dailymail.co.uk
She became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the advice of the controversial NHS helpline.
Within 72 hours of taking three pills, doctors put her on life support.Samantha spent a month in hospital after developing the life-threatening Stevens Johnson syndrome, which causes the skin to peel off, and later developed toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, which has damaged her sight.
As quoted in Dailymail (21/01/2010) her devastated mother is now seeking legal advice about the information given out by the NHS swine fllu helpline. She believes that Tamiflu has not been tested thoroughly enough.
Samantha, of Bicester in Oxfordshire, had taken just three of the 10 tablets when she broke out in a red rash.
Within hours, her body was covered in painful blisters which were so severe her long hair had to be shaved off.
She was rushed to hospital, where tests later revealed that she never actually contracted the swine flu virus.
Samantha is now in very deeply sadness. She cannot do anything by herself or even she cannot cry because she has no tears anymore instead she never knows when her eyes will be healing. She also has to put an eye cream hourly.
Actually Stephen Johnson syndrome is very rare reaction for Tamiflu usage.
In other side the swine flu outbreak itself now become a controversy. A leading health expert also claimed that the outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare.
Whatever the facts opened later, we all hope Samantha will be heals soon so that she can get her “normal life”.
Source: Dailymail.co.uk
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