If you're not there already, you should be in an A&E of a hospital. 40 hours is a long time for that level of fever. Getting a few cans of Pocari wouldn't be a bad idea either considering the dehydration and salts loss.
If you're not there already, you should be in an A&E of a hospital. 40 hours is a long time for that level of fever. Getting a few cans of Pocari wouldn't be a bad idea either considering the dehydration and salts loss.
There are designated flu clinics which will test and issue tamiflu.
Tamiflu is worth taking after the 48 hour limit if the temperature is still high and there are still nasty flu symptoms. It is much less effective, but not ineffective.
Personally we went to our local govt A&E and were very well looked after.
Last edited by pixel; 28-09-2009 at 06:35 PM.
Source?
The Tamiflu manufacturers themselves say explicitly that there is no evidence of this.
Source: http://www.rocheusa.com/products/tamiflu/pi.pdf
Lines 145-147 and 258-259
Last edited by PDLM; 28-09-2009 at 07:03 PM.
I would guess Howard is at the hospital now and probably doesn't give a flying f.... about Tamiflu effectiveness
The action of tamiflu is to prevent the spread of virus from one cell to the neighbouring cells. Therefore usually the flu is fully spread through the body cell to cell in 48 hours making tamiflu pointless after this time.
However, if the temp is still very high after 48 hours it is possible that the cell-cell transfer is not complete and tamiflu could be beneficial. at this point it is a fine balance between the benefits outweighing the side effects. A decision for the doc a patient together.
The leaflet you gave includes the proviso that efficacy after 48 hours from onset has not been established. They simply have not proven it helps after this time.
We found it helped after 3.5 days from onset.
Last edited by pixel; 28-09-2009 at 08:46 PM.
I can't find it. Please reference the specific lines where it says that Tamiflu has been shown to have a beneficial effect when taken 3.5 days after the onset of symptoms.