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Hi, I thought it about time I wrote a blog about our daughter Olivia. She's 2.5 years old and has been ill now for 16 weeks. On the evening of 20 July 2009 Olivia developed a sudden fever and as it was suspected to be Swine Flu she was prescribed Tamiflu.

Unfortunately the Pharmacy gave 75mg twice daily instead of the 30mg twice daily she had been prescribed and we believe her Neurological problems could be connected to the Tamiflu overdose as it was 2.5 times what it should have been twice a day for 5 days .

She has been suffering a variety of seizures, confusion, memory loss, severe stutter, dragging her left leg behind her, slurring, left side of mouth drooping, pain in her head and long periods of being in a zombie state.  She often asks where you are when you're stood right next to her.

Prior to the Tamiflu Olivia was very alert, had very good speech for her age in terms of range of words and pronunciation. Olivia never had a seizure before the Tamiflu, not even when she had high temperatures with the suspected Swine Flu.  She slept all through the night, every night.   She had a great sense of humour and was very cheeky.  We always described her as a minx who was always on the go.