Tamiflu Causes Behavior Problems - According to the FDA, Tamiflu has been found to cause behavior problems in children and has been linked to 25 deaths.
The Food and Drug Administration safety review of Roche’s Tamiflu and Glaxo’s Relenza released Friday highlighted behavior problems reported by hundreds of pediatricians.
The FDA began reviewing Tamiflu’s safety in 2005 after receiving reports of children experiencing neurological problems, including hallucinations and convulsions.
Twenty-five patients under age 21 have died while taking the drug, most of them in Japan. Five deaths resulted from children “falling from windows or balconies or running into traffic.”
There have been no child deaths connected with Relenza, but regulators said children taking the drug have shown similar neurological problems to the Tamiflu behavior problems.
While FDA said it isn’t clear whether the problems are directly related to the drugs, it recommends adding language about the possible side effects to labeling for physicians who prescribe Tamiflu and Relenza.
Besides being a drug side effect, the agency said the behaviors alternately could result from an unusual strain of flu or a rare genetic reaction to the drug.
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November 25th, 2007 at 12:50 am
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