Symptom Advice .com » waste of money http://symptomadvice.com Tue, 29 May 2012 22:17:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Why is Tamiflu being authorized by the NHS Flu helpline for people who have had symptoms longer than 48hrs? http://symptomadvice.com/why-is-tamiflu-being-authorized-by-the-nhs-flu-helpline-for-people-who-have-had-symptoms-longer-than-48hrs/ http://symptomadvice.com/why-is-tamiflu-being-authorized-by-the-nhs-flu-helpline-for-people-who-have-had-symptoms-longer-than-48hrs/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 07:17:12 +0000 Symptom Advice http://symptomadvice.com/why-is-tamiflu-being-authorized-by-the-nhs-flu-helpline-for-people-who-have-had-symptoms-longer-than-48hrs/

I ask this as everything I've read says that the drug will not work at all if the course of treatment is commenced more than 48 hours after flu symptoms first appear. Is it not a waste of money to have all this Tamiflu given to patients who have had flu symptoms for 4, 5, days?

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