WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 100 recent cases of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior in ***anese patients treated with Tamiflu should have parents watching for similar reactions when treating their children with the flu drug.
That's the new advice from the Food and Drug Administration in adding a new precaution to the label of the influenza drug, prescribed about 2 million times a year in the United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/11/14/tamiflu.behavi.ap/index.html
Tamiflu is one of the few drugs believed effective in treating bird flu, which health officials fear could spark a pandemic should it mutate into a form easily passed from human to human.
According to the label, Tamiflu is for the treatment of uncomplicated acute illness due to flu in patients 1 year and older who have shown symptoms for no more than two days.
....do we have bird flu in north america now?
FDA to parents: Watch for 'abnormal behavior' onTamiflu
