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M514
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Tamiflu
I had the flu a few years ago for the first time and I started taking tamiflu the first day I was sick. I was really only sick for 2 days but then Infelt so weak and tired for a few more days after that.
My DD was diagnosed with the flu on Sun. I took her to urgent care and the dr there said he prescribes it but he tells the patients if they throw up from it to stop taking it. My ped does not recommend it. I haven't given it to my DD.
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NervousNell
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Yes I do get my DD the shot every year even though she ends up with the flu every year. Not sure why I do it- but maybe for that reason.
And I would think that if a child was really sick or immuno compromised- as another poster mentioned above- the ped would prescribe the tamiflu
I think the ones that don't prescribe it are doing so because in normal, health children, who don't have severe symptoms with flu, they find the risk not to be worth the benefit. But I am sure my ped, and the others who don't prescribe, would in that case.
I would hope you are right in that situation. One if my dds friends she dances with did not get the flu shot, got the flu, severely. Ended up being hospitalized and pneumonia on top of it. She is not immune compromised and the hospital wanted to give her tamiflu. Mom refused. Again, to each their own but "I" would 100% take the risk of a "possibility " of a side effect than have my child hospitalized with the actual symptoms that they currently had.
If there was evidence that it absolutely worked I would give it- regardless of possible side effects I think.
But it's such a crap shoot and then it says- can shorten the duration by 1-2 days or something like that
If it were like an antibiotic- knocking out an infection- there wouldn't be a thought in my mind.
But I feel like it's 50/50 on if it would even work at all. Antivirals are hard. They aren't the same as antibiotics.
It's hard to find a study that has definitive proof that it works. (Though I'm sure it does in some cases.)
That is what gives me pause.
Either way it's a moot point because I like my ped and they won't give it. So I don't have a choice.
I filled it for myself once- didn't take it because I just didn't trust it- and glad I didn't because they called me the next day saying my flu swab was negative.
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| Posted 2/9/17 3:19 PM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Tamiflu
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ETA: I also never heard of so many doctors saying no to Tamiflu or any Flu medication until LIF.
I was surprised as well when we were there last year and DD was diagnosed and she said- we don't prescribe Tamiflu to children due to side effects.
I would have refused it anyway, but I thought she would be pushing it on me.
Maybe it's a new thing.
I am not sure if there are other flu medications....i have only heard of Tamiflu
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| Posted 2/9/17 3:27 PM |
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EricaAlt
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Sash
ETA: I also never heard of so many doctors saying no to Tamiflu or any Flu medication until LIF.
I was surprised as well when we were there last year and DD was diagnosed and she said- we don't prescribe Tamiflu to children due to side effects.
I would have refused it anyway, but I thought she would be pushing it on me.
Maybe it's a new thing.
I am not sure if there are other flu medications....i have only heard of Tamiflu
My Pediatrician doesn't recommend it so much either. He gives you the option bc he knows it's pricey and can lesson the duration by a day or two. Again, it's not proven, it's not an antibiotic that gets rid of it, and there are a lot more side effects that can harm you. My DS had hallucinations on it so I took him off it immediately. I have a friend who gave it to her son and she said a few days later he was better. Then again I think he had a mild case bc the next day after he was playing outside and she said he had a low fever.
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jellybean78
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Re: Tamiflu
DD1 was prescribed Tamiflu when she had the flu a few weeks ago. I gave her one dose then threw it out once I started doing some research. The PA that prescribed it for her was the only one that recommended it. DD2 got the flu shortly after her sister and both doctors we saw said they did NOT recommend Tamiflu. Shame too because we paid $100 for the prescription..
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| Posted 2/11/17 7:39 AM |
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Sonervous
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Re: Tamiflu
I would never give my kids tamiflu. When I got the flu I took it and literally threw up for 3 hours straight (I was not throwing up before that). I thought I was going to die I was laying in bed hallucinating. It was terrible. I read all the reviews of what the side effects on kids and I believe it all cause it happened to me!
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PennyCat
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Just to say it, my DS was vaccinated this year against the flu and still got the flu.. got extremely sick, and ended up in the hospital. My vaccinated child. In our case, a less severe version was unfortunately not what we got.
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| Posted 2/11/17 1:04 PM |
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jteach
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Just to say it, my DS was vaccinated this year against the flu and still got the flu.. got extremely sick, and ended up in the hospital. My vaccinated child. In our case, a less severe version was unfortunately not what we got.
Sorry to hear about how sick your som was.
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| Posted 2/11/17 1:48 PM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Just to say it, my DS was vaccinated this year against the flu and still got the flu.. got extremely sick, and ended up in the hospital. My vaccinated child. In our case, a less severe version was unfortunately not what we got.
I think the idea that if you get the flu shot and still get the flu it will be a milder case is actually a fallacy.
I think if you get the shot and still get the flu it means the strain you caught was not covered in this years' shot. So it was like you got no protection at all. It won't be any less severe because you got no protection against that strain....so in essence its like you got no shot at all....so you will be just as sick (with that strain of flu) as a non vacinnated person
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jellybean78
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Tamiflu
Both my DDs got the flu shot. DD1 did NOT get a milder version and neither did DD2. I was a millisecond away from taking DD1 to the ER because she was soon sick and her fever didn't break even with motrin and tylenol. She was super lethargic and at one point sounding incoherent. Bottom line she did NOT get the milder version of the flu at all. I've always always given my DD a flu shot but after this year no more. DH and I did not get the flu shot and we were the only ones who didn't get the flu.
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| Posted 2/11/17 4:14 PM |
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PennyCat
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Just to say it, my DS was vaccinated this year against the flu and still got the flu.. got extremely sick, and ended up in the hospital. My vaccinated child. In our case, a less severe version was unfortunately not what we got.
I think the idea that if you get the flu shot and still get the flu it will be a milder case is actually a fallacy.
I think if you get the shot and still get the flu it means the strain you caught was not covered in this years' shot. So it was like you got no protection at all. It won't be any less severe because you got no protection against that strain....so in essence its like you got no shot at all....so you will be just as sick (with that strain of flu) as a non vacinnated person
What's odd to me is my DH and DS got vaccinated at the same time.. same shot.. My DH didn't get the flu. My DS very very very much did. I did too-- but I wasn't vaccinated so I don't count lol.
It's just weird to me that my DH didn't get it so it seems it WAS effective for him but not for my DS. Yeah he used precautions to not get sick but he was coughed on, etc etc.. He was like my DS's main caretaker once I got the flu too and he still avoided it. Maybe body chemistry matters here too.
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| Posted 2/11/17 9:32 PM |
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Leb
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Re: Tamiflu
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by jteach
Posted by NervousNell
So for those of you that insist on Tamiflu, if your ped refused to prescribe it due to side effects, like mine does and a few others' peds on this thread as well, would you find a new ped just so you could get the Tamiflu?
Or would you trust your ped?
Just wondering how the pro Tamiflu people would handle a practice like mine that says they won't prescribe it to children.
If my child was truly very very sick from the flu (meaning severe symptoms) then yes, I would 100% find a new pediatrician. But from hearing from a ton of friends whose children still got the flu after the flu shot their symptoms have been much less severe than most who did not get the flu shot ( which again is why I will get myself and my children the flu shot every single year)
Just to say it, my DS was vaccinated this year against the flu and still got the flu.. got extremely sick, and ended up in the hospital. My vaccinated child. In our case, a less severe version was unfortunately not what we got.
I think the idea that if you get the flu shot and still get the flu it will be a milder case is actually a fallacy.
I think if you get the shot and still get the flu it means the strain you caught was not covered in this years' shot. So it was like you got no protection at all. It won't be any less severe because you got no protection against that strain....so in essence its like you got no shot at all....so you will be just as sick (with that strain of flu) as a non vacinnated person
What's odd to me is my DH and DS got vaccinated at the same time.. same shot.. My DH didn't get the flu. My DS very very very much did. I did too-- but I wasn't vaccinated so I don't count lol.
It's just weird to me that my DH didn't get it so it seems it WAS effective for him but not for my DS. Yeah he used precautions to not get sick but he was coughed on, etc etc.. He was like my DS's main caretaker once I got the flu too and he still avoided it. Maybe body chemistry matters here too.
Honestly my personal non medical opinion is just we know the flu shot didn't work this year, so wether or not you guys had it just had to do with your immune systems. Your DH was exposed and fought it off. Like sometimes my daughter gets a cold and I don't, or the reverse.
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