Can an overdose of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir Phosphate) kill you?

[kitkat_969]

I am doing a projects on medical drugs and the effects of an overdose and one drug I am doing is Tamiflu (drug to prevent or cure the flu). And I need to know whether it can acually kill you or whether it just puts you in a terrible condition... And if you know could you tell me how long it would take to kill?

And if you know, can an overdose of Revia (Naltrexone hydrochloride) kill, too? (Treats alcohol dependance) same thing as Tamiflu for killing, bad condition ect.

[tinmuning]

First, any overdose of any pharmaceutical substance can cause serious side effects & death.

Re: Tamiflu overdose, at present, there's no recorded experience of overdose though doses up to 1000 mg of this drug have been associated with nausea and/or vomiting.

As with Revia, very limited records shows experience of overdose. There has been a study where subjects (human) were given up to 800mg daily for 1 week which showed no evidence of toxicity. In animal studies however, high doses up to 100mg/kg resulted to death of the subjects due to respiratory failure and/or tonic-clonic seizures.