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Researchers are reportedly saying that antiviral medications Tamiflu and Relenza could help curb the intensity and effects of the swine flu for those who appear to becoming ill, however some doctors are warning that the antiviral drugs should only be taken if prescribed by a physician otherwise other serious conditions may arrise, according to The Standard.
Russian prosecutors have closed their investigation into the mysterious death of investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, citing a rare but life threatening adverse reaction to medication as the likely cause of his death, known as toxic epidermal necrolysis, or TEN, according to Reuters.
One year ago this month, life was normal for Hannah. Then 15, she had been placed on trileptal to treat her bipolar diagnosis. She overlooked the initial side effects – every morning she would vomit and had lost a lot of weight. But otherwise, she led the active life of the average teenager.
Winter is the prime time for the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against this serious disease. For those who don’t get the vaccine – and for some who do – influenza can occur.
If you happen to fall ill during this season from colds and flu, take note of the prescriptions your doctor hands you, especially those for common antibiotics. Two years ago, my doctor prescribed Ketek for a lingering sinus infection that other meds just weren’t knocking out. He warned me to only take it if I really felt I needed it. He said it was a very strong antibiotic.
Fifteen-year-old Hannah remembers last March like it was yesterday. She was staying with a friend while her mother was out of town, and she began to come down with what she calls flu-like symptoms. “But I started to get even more sick then I already was,” she said. Rashes were forming on her skin and blisters in her mouth. Her friend’s mother was alarmed and took her to the hospital. Hannah was transferred to a room and underwent tests.
Gary Beatham had been blamed for her death. He couldn’t understand why.
Beatham’s girlfriend of two years, Louise Armstrong, came down with flu-like symptoms in late December. The morning of New Year’s Eve, Beatham woke in their Penrith, Australia, home to find his partner gravely ill with blisters covering her body. He called the ambulance, but it was too late. Armstrong had died.
Just six months before her body lost its fight with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), 9-year-old Kaitlyn Sierra Langstaff penned this poem:
TOUCH IS THE SENSE OF LOVE
I’m scared,
You hold me.
I cry,
You hold me close.
I’m hurt,
You hold me closer.
Touch is the sense of love.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating the possibility that phenytoin and fosphenytoin sodium increase the risk of serious skin reactions, such as Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), according to FDA MedWatch. Phenytoin and fosphenytoin are used to control tonic-clonic (grand mal) and complex-partial seizures in epilepsy.
New reports from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and cancer patients have put Revlimid, an oral medicine given to patients with multiple myeloma, on a list of medications that could possibly cause Stevens Johnson Syndrome when used by itself or mixed with other drugs. Stevens Johnson syndrome is a serious, potentially life-threatening skin disease that can start with flu-like symptoms and eventually cause a rash that spreads and blisters.
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