Weeks after health and human service secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. accused vitamin A as an effective treatment for measles in the midst of the greatest outbreak of diseases in decades, in the hospital in West -Texas are treated for signs of vitamin A toxicity.
Different patients in the Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock turned out to have an abnormal liver function, CNN reported, which can occur when a person can occur excessive doses of vitamin A. Those treated included “a handful of unpatched children who had so much vitamin A time,” reported the New York.
More than 320 people in Texas have sustained measles in recent weeks. Forty people were admitted to the state in the state and one child died in the current outbreak. From March 27 there are 411 reports of measles in the United States in 2025 and in general two dead.
'Flying of the Planks'
A week after the 4 March interview of RFK Jr. At Fox News, in which he was shot up the “very good” results of treatment of measles with vitamin A-rich liver oil, pharmacies in West-Texas.
“It is flying out of the shelves,” Tyler Schultz, pharmacy manager at Drug Emporium in Lubbock told KLBK News about liver oil earlier this month.
On Thursday, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade organization for the food supplement industry, issued a statement in response to recent media reports that parents gave their children excessive doses of vitamin A as a way to treat or try to prevent contracting measles.
“Although vitamin A plays an important role in supporting overall immune function, research has not set its effectiveness in preventing measles infection. CRN is concerned about reports of high dose of vitamin A that are used inappropriate, especially in children,” said the explanation.
Although it has been shown that large doses of vitamin A are effective in the treatment of serious measles cases, health experts warn that it must be administered under the supervision of a doctor.
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases states on its website that “when measles take place, vitamin A can be an effective treatment when it is properly administered by a health care professional.”
Taking too much vitamin A can also be dangerous.
Symptoms of vitamin A toxicity
On her website, Cleveland Clinic states that “acute vitamin A toxicity takes place when someone – usually a child – accidentally took a megadosis vitamin A.”
The most common symptoms are headache, a rash that can lead to the skin painting, sleepiness, irritability, stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, the clinic said.
Kennedy has instructed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.
“Although there is no approved antiviral for those who may have been infected, CDC has recently updated their recommendation to support vitamin A, under the supervision of a doctor for people with a mild, moderate and serious infection,” Kennedy wrote a long-term vaccine skeptic, in a Fox published on 2 March published. “Studies have shown that vitamin A can drastically reduce the mortality of measles.”
But the study to which Kennedy referred, looked at the effectiveness of vitamin A “Treatment and supplementation in addition to offering two doses of vaccine to all children.” And in his Fox News interview two days later, Kennedy suggested that vitamin A could also work “as a prophylaxis” on measles, which is not true.
Vaccines work against measles
“I just want to be very clear that vitamin A is not a replacement for vaccination,” said Dr. Stacey Rose, a professor of Baylor College of Medicine, earlier this month to Houston Public Media. “I think the reason that vitamin A is part of the conversation is because it has been shown that vitamin A supplementation reduces mortality or death associated with measles infection, especially in young children and in populations or areas where children tend to be malnourished.”
Healthcare experts have astonished about how to prevent a fully prevented childhood disease continued to circulate thanks to the skepticism of vaccine.
“Given that two (2) doses of measles, mumps, rubella (mmr) vaccin 97% are effective in preventing the disease, it should not be necessary for a parent or a care provider to know how to treat measles,” the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on its website.
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