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A boy who takes Influenza medicine Tamiflu, dies
Is side effect that causes state of hallucinosis a cause?
By JCPRESS
The consumer group and civic groups such as Consumers Union of Japan and "Vaccine Talk Whole Country" proposed that it had to strengthen the restriction of administering to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare concerning Influenza medication "Tamiflu", or oseltamivir phosphate, on February 22.
The boy of two years in the junior high school who got an influenza and had fallen asleep suddenly did the fall death from the ninth floor of the apartment house on February 5.
At this time, the boy who took the Tamiflu, or oseltamivir phosphate, for the first time had been attacked like hallucinosis immediately before dying.
Chugai Pharmaceutical, the import sales enterprise of the Tamiflu, or oseltamivir phosphate, had revised an attached attention sentences of the side reaction that caused a dangerous state of hallucinosis last year.
However, the boy's parents had not received the explanation of the danger of such a side reaction from the doctor.
Consumers Union of Japan demanded "Prohibition of administering to less than one years old" and "Enough explanation of the side reaction at the formula" from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.