Comments on: Tamiflu FTW!

By: cheryl

cheryl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:25:05 +0000

think about this

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:4-3qrU7nNKAJ:serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1839+flush+toilet+spray+bacteria&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:53:23 +0000

Yay for your novel! Write, little Monkey, write!

By: cjt621

cjt621 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:25:44 +0000

Also, Sasha take the full 5 day course even if you start to feel better. It’s the same thing when you get antibiotics take it like you are told to for as long as you are told to. Incomplete courses of therapy are how resistance develops. So I will repeat TAKE IT TWICE A DAY FOR FIVE DAYS LIKE THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY (or at least should say). Ok I’m off my soapbox…for now.

Get well soon.

By: cjt621

cjt621 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:15:24 +0000

Because Tamiflu is only used to treat the flu and is only really carried in pharmacies during flu season it’s generally only made in 1 or 2 big batches a year usually in the summer. Because this has been such a bad year for the flu we’re seeing unusual shortages of Tamiflu. The liquid form for children has been completely unavailable for at least a month now and we’re having to make it from the adult formulation. Right now it’s only being given to those who have a confirmed case of the flu, at least around where I practice.

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:49:23 +0000

I think the reservation with Tamaflu right now is that there is a shortage. The same reason only high risk patients are getting the H1N1 vaccine.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:01:27 +0000

Glad you’re feeling better Sasha. Good luck with the novel; good luck to anyone writing for National Novel Writing Month!

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:32:50 +0000

They save Tami-flu for high risk patients because if they gave it to everyone the virus will mutate and become resistant to it. Then we’ll all be fucked because it will become more virulent and knock out 25% of the population. There is already one case in the Netherlands where H1N1 is resistant to Tami-flu and relenza.

No one likes being sick but you can’t just go shoving anti-virals down everyone’s throat- we learned the hard way shoving antibiotics down everyone’s throat- now we have MRSA and VRE.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:11:41 +0000

Tamiful is usually reserved for immunodeficient patients and is not readily given out because it is (not to get all biochemistry crazy on y’all) an inhibitor of the virus, over use can cause the virus to mutate which will effectively lower the effectiveness of tamiful as the virus will have developed a resistance to it.

By: Squeeziee

Squeeziee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:26:16 +0000

I have no immune system so when I get the flu I get it HARD. About a month ago I was so ill I collapsed in the bath, and my mum had to literally lift me out, dress me, and drive me to A&E with me starting to hallucinate in the back seat.
Guess what the hospital did. If you guessed get a doctor to check me out, get me to a bed and pump me full of anti-flu drugs you’ve obviously never been to an NHS A&E. They put me in an isolated room (with “DANGER!”) on the door and then left me for 5 hours. A doctor then popped in and concluded I had the flu and tonsillitis, so I should probably get some rest. They didn’t want to give me tamiflu in case it reacted with something (?), so I should just fight it off with my none-existent immune system… yeah, that made total sense!

/rant

By: joey

joey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:23:02 +0000

You should run for office,just make sure you don’t do it under the Democratic ticket,looks like that won’t be a good idea for a while.