Popular flu medicine caused hallucinations in a girl from California
'29.01.2018'
Source: ABC7
15 is a San Francisco resident who suffers from hallucinations after taking the popular drug Tamiflu (Tamiflu), her mother told reporters ABC7.
A woman wants to warn all parents about the possible side effects of Tamiflu after her daughter started hallucinating shortly after taking the medicine. When the pediatrician prescribed the drug, the girl took two doses. On the second night, she began to shake and cry - and the mother realized that the child had hallucinations.
“She just cried and said that she saw different things in the room, that the room was closing over her ... I didn't know how to stop it, grabbed her, tried to just hold and pull her out of it. It looked like schizophrenia, ”says the girl's mother, Nora.
Immediately after this, the woman forbade her daughter to take the drug. According to her, the flu symptoms continued for another four days, but hallucinations no longer occurred. This case is not the first information about the side effects of Tamiflu. Parents from Texas told the press that their 6-year-old daughter had hallucinations and she tried to harm herself after taking the drug.
Experts recommend as soon as possible to report any unusual symptoms and side effects to your doctor.
