More than half of children taking the swine flu drug
Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research
suggests.
A total of 103 children took part in the London study, of which 85
were given the drug as a precaution after a classmate received a diagnosis of
swine flu. Of those, 45 experienced one or more side-effects. The most common
was nausea (29 per cent), followed by stomach pain or cramps (20 per cent) and
problems sleeping (12 per cent). Almost one in five had a “neuropsychiatric
side-effect”, such as inability to think clearly, nightmares and “behaving
strangely”, according to the research, published in Eurosurveillance, a
journal of disease.