{"id":388894,"date":"2018-12-12T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-you-should-avoid-another-lousy-flu-drug\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:45:08","slug":"why-you-should-avoid-another-lousy-flu-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-you-should-avoid-another-lousy-flu-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Avoid Another Lousy Flu Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new medication has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat influenza.\u00a0 Xofluza (Baloxavir).\u00a0 It is an antiviral medication approved in October, 2018, by the FDA to treat infections from influenza A and B.\u00a0 Studies have shown it may reduce the duration of influenza symptoms by about 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Xofluza is the latest anti-influenza medication approved by the FDA.\u00a0\u00a0 The earlier anti-flu medications are neuraminidase inhibiters.\u00a0 I wrote to you about the failure of this class of drugs in a previous blog post (https:\/\/www.drbrownstein.com\/forget-tamiflu\/<\/a>).\u00a0 Tamiflu, working by a different medication than Xofluza, was shown to decrease influenza symptoms by about 21 hours.<\/p>\n

As I said in that earlier post, \u201cFolks, I can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember, the US government bought and stockpiled millions of doses of Tamiflu in case there was an influenza crises.\u00a0 Tamiflu costs about $120 for a full course of treatment.\u00a0 Xofluza costs $150 for a full course of treatment. (Note:\u00a0 Tamiflu and Xofluza both are treated as a one pill regimen to be taken within the first 24 hours of influenza symptoms.)<\/p>\n

In 2014 I wrote this about\u00a0Tamiflu<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cTamiflu, the widely prescribed antiviral drug for the flu, is surprisingly still on the market.\u201d
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The reason I wrote that statement is because Tamiflu is an expensive, ineffective drug that has too many side effects.\u00a0 As I stated above, it only reduces flu symptoms by slightly less than 24 hours.\u00a0 And, here are the side effects associated with Tamiflu:\u00a0 nausea, diarrhea, and headaches.\u00a0 Yes, you read that right:\u00a0 the same symptoms caused by the flu are caused by the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A new medication has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat influenza.\u00a0 Xofluza (Baloxavir).\u00a0 It is an antiviral medication approved in October, 2018, by the FDA to treat infections from influenza A and B.\u00a0 Studies have shown it may reduce the duration of influenza symptoms by about 24 hours. Xofluza is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}