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Originally Posted by ladyjane  It is a well known fact that all the antivirals do is reduce symptoms, but that makes them effective and worthwhile imo. I have taken them before and have known many others who did without any ill effects.
EVERY medicine made has side effects!
You did not say what article you read, but my guess it is one of the natural sites.
To each his own...I will take it if I get the flu. Thanks for your advice, but if people did not take meds due to possible side effects, they would die from what they needed the meds for! |
My post was directly related to Tamiflu, I don't believe any other antiviral was associated with this problem.....I'm sorry if that is what it looked like......Just trying to be helpful as to avoid any bad reactions......I wish someone had done the same for me when my father was ill......
I will agree that every drug has it's good and bad but having said that today many drugs that come out on the market are just not safe.....106, 000 people die every year, not from prescription abuse, but from taking the drugs
correctly. This figure is more than likely much high than this because of gross under reporting.....In just the past ten years a dozen drugs have been removed from the market....
frontline: dangerous prescription: a dirty dozen | PBS
.....these drugs caused many deaths and serious injuries. I'm sure many of the people taking them thought of them as safe drugs.....If you where to look up "pharmaceuticals and FDA connection" you would be shocked at the process of drug approval, how clinical trials are done, fudged statistics, employees from the FDA having financial ties to drug companies, and how drugs are
not pulled from the market when problems start to occur.....
For me looking into this subject has been quite surprising and also very, frightening and disturbing......The more I kept reading that old saying kept coming to my mind..... " Don't believe everything you think." ...and I certainly don't anymore.....
Wishing you well and stay healthy.....