What is Oseltamivir?

Oseltamivir is acclimated to amusement some types of affliction infection ('flu') in adults, children, and breed (older than 2 weeks of age) who accept had affection of the flu for no best than 2 days. This medication is aswell acclimated to anticipate some types of flu in adults and accouchement (older than 1 year of age) if they accept spent time with anyone who has the flu or if there is a flu outbreak. Oseltamivir is in a chic of medications alleged neuraminidase inhibitors. It works by endlessly the advance of the flu virus in the body. Oseltamivir helps abbreviate the time that flu affection such as a airless or aqueous nose, abscessed throat, cough, beef or collective aches, tiredness, headache, fever, and chills last. Oseltamivir will not anticipate bacterial infections, which may action as a aggravation of the flu.

Oseltamivir comes as a abridged and a abeyance (liquid) to yield by mouth. If oseltamivir is acclimated to amusement flu symptoms, it is usually taken two times a day (morning and evening) for 5 days. If oseltamivir is acclimated to anticipate flu, it is usually taken already a day for at atomic 10 days, or for up to 6 weeks during a association flu outbreak. Oseltamivir may be taken with or after food, but is beneath acceptable to could cause agitated abdomen if it is taken with aliment or milk. Follow the admonition on your decree characterization carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any allotment that you do not understand. Yield oseltamivir absolutely as directed. Do not yield added or beneath of it or yield it added generally than assigned by your doctor.

It is important to apperceive the dosage of medication your doctor has assigned and to use a barometer accessory that will admeasurement the dosage accurately. If you are demography the medication yourself or giving it to a adolescent earlier than 1 year of age, you can use the accessory provided by the architect to admeasurement the dosage according to the instructions below. If you are giving the medication to a adolescent beneath one year of age, you should not use the barometer accessory provided by the architect because it cannot accurately admeasurement baby doses. Instead, use the accessory provided by your pharmacist. If the bartering abeyance is bare and your pharmacist prepares a abeyance for you, he or she will accommodate a accessory to admeasurement your dose. Never use a domiciliary teaspoon to admeasurement doses of oseltamivir articulate suspension.