{"id":15355,"date":"2025-03-25T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/for-some-measles-patients-vitamin-a-remedy-supported-by-rfk-jr-leaves-them-more-ill\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:40:32","slug":"for-some-measles-patients-vitamin-a-remedy-supported-by-rfk-jr-leaves-them-more-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/for-some-measles-patients-vitamin-a-remedy-supported-by-rfk-jr-leaves-them-more-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of those supplements is vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children\u2019s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they\u2019ve now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of them had received unsafe doses of supplements for several weeks in an attempt to prevent a measles infection, said Dr. Summer Davies, who cares for acutely ill children at the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI had a patient that was only sick a couple of days, four or five days, but had been taking it for like three weeks,\u201d Dr. Davies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While doctors sometimes administer high doses of vitamin A in a hospital to manage severe measles, experts do not recommend taking it without physician supervision. Vitamin A is not an effective way to prevent measles; however, two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are about 97 percent effective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At high doses, vitamin A can cause liver damage; dry, peeling skin; hair loss; and, in rare instances, seizures and coma. So far, doctors at West Texas hospitals have said they\u2019ve seen patients with yellowed skin and high levels of liver enzymes in their bloodwork, both signs of a damaged liver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many of those patients had been in the hospital for a severe measles infection; doctors discovered the liver damage only after routine lab work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As of Tuesday, the outbreak, which began in January, had spread to more than 320 people in Texas. Forty patients have been hospitalized, and one child has died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In neighboring New Mexico counties, the virus has sickened 43 and hospitalized two. Seven confirmed cases in Oklahoma have also been linked to the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Local doctors and health officials have become increasingly concerned about the growing popularity of unproven remedies for preventing and treating measles, which they fear is causing people to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/health\/measles-texas-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">delay critical medical treatment<\/a> and to reject vaccination, the only proven way to prevent a measles infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Gaines County, alternative medicine has always been popular. Many in the area\u2019s large Mennonite community, where most cases have been clustered, avoid interacting with the medical system and adhere to a long tradition of natural remedies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Health officials said the recent popularity of vitamin A use for measles could be traced back to a Fox News interview with Mr. Kennedy, in which he said he had heard of \u201calmost miraculous and instantaneous recovery\u201d with treatments like cod liver oil, which he said was \u201cthe safest application of vitamin A.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/03\/25\/rfk-hhs-cdc-public-health-misinformation-spread\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opinion essay<\/a> for The Washington Post on Tuesday afternoon, Kevin Griffis, who was until last week the communications director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote that he had resigned in part because of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s handling of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn my final weeks at the C.D.C., I watched as career infectious-disease experts were tasked with spending precious hours searching medical literature in vain for data to support Kennedy\u2019s preferred treatments,\u201d Mr. Griffis wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the weeks after the Fox News interview, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/video\/%e2%80%98its-been-flying-off-the-shelf%e2%80%99-lubbock-pharmacy-sees-more-vitamin-a-and-cod-liver-oil-purchases-amidst-west-texas-measles-outbreak\/10533712\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">drugstores<\/a> in West Texas struggled to keep vitamin A and cod liver oil supplements on their shelves. \u201cI did not hear anything about vitamin A until he said it on television,\u201d said Katherine Wells, the director of public health in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One local doctor \u2014 whom Mr. Kennedy named in the Fox News interview as one of the physicians who had told him \u201cwhat is working on the ground\u201d\u2014 opened a makeshift clinic in Gaines County and began doling out various treatments, including vitamin A supplements, to treat active measles cases and to prevent infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Davies said she suspected that a majority of the children she had treated had taken vitamin A supplements at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts say that vitamin A can play an important role in the \u201csupportive care\u201d that doctors provide to patients with severe measles infections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It works by replenishing the bodily stores depleted by the virus, which bolsters the immune system, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the hospital, physicians give only two doses of the vitamin to children with measles, usually over the course of two days, and \u201cvery carefully calibrate\u201d the amounts depending on age and weight, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Schaffner emphasized that it is not a miracle treatment for the virus, and that there is no antiviral medication for measles. And there is no credible evidence that vitamin A helps prevent infection in children in the United States, where vitamin A deficiencies are exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In fact, giving children repeated, high doses of the vitamin is dangerous. Unlike other vitamins, which are flushed out of the body through urine, excess vitamin A accumulates in fat tissue, making it more likely to reach dangerous levels over time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat kind of preventative use I think is especially concerning,\u201d said Dr. Lara Johnson, another doctor at the Lubbock hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen we have kids taking it for weeks and weeks, then you do potentially have a cumulative impact of the toxicity<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">,<\/em>\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Johnson added that local physicians were particularly concerned about parents\u2019 relying on over-the-counter supplements \u2014 whose labels don\u2019t always accurately reflect the amount of vitamin they contain \u2014 and accepting 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