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Renz Soliman

How a Common Flu Drug and Flu Vaccine Really Affect Kids With Influenza and the Influenza Vaccine Debate

Learn how a common flu drug affects seizure risk in children, and why pairing antivirals with the flu vaccine offers stronger protection from influenza. (Credit: Pixabay, izhar-ahamed)

Flu doctors once worried that a common flu drug might trigger seizures and strange behavior in children, but newer evidence is reshaping that story in a surprising way.

Research now points to influenza itself, not the medication, as the main driver of most serious brain-related symptoms in kids, which changes how families and clinicians think about both flu treatment and prevention with the flu vaccine or influenza vaccine.​

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