Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Patients More Ill

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Physicians at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they've now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:33 PM | 34 COMMENTS | permalink

As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h ...

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-- Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com) March 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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"One of those supplements is vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they've now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage."

WINNING!!!

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-25 05:59 PM

Haha. ------- idiots.

Hire a ------- plumber to perform brain surgery on you.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-25 06:12 PM

"a handful of children"

What color are they?

I want to know if RFK Jr's policy is working as intended.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-25 06:18 PM

Did Dum-Dum Kennedy Jr. say Vitamin A? He meant arsenic. All natural! Great stuff! Easy mistake to make. Carry on!

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-25 06:28 PM

Practicing medicine without a license is a crime and RFKjr shows us why!

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-26 06:36 AM

Often times you allow hard headed people to learn the "hard way". Unfortunately, when the hard headed people are parents. the hard lessons learned are manifest in their children. IMO, it's child abuse. Just as children are taken from drug addled parents, so should they be taken from parents that fail to take proper care of them when expert advice and resources are available to do so.

#6 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-03-26 07:11 AM

If you're taking medical advice from a brain worm addled heroin addict you're a special kind of stupid.

Look at the bright side, he's chlorinating the gene pool.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-26 07:12 AM

"a handful of children"

What color are they?

I want to know if RFK Jr's policy is working as intended.

#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Since they are showing signs of liver failure they are likely yellow.

#8 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-03-26 09:06 AM

Lawyers make terrible doctors. Exhibit A: Heroin Bob.

Next from his desk: handguns are great medical care devices, except for Hunter Biden...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-26 09:26 AM

This swerve into public health idiocy might have good outcomes long term by letting intellectually lazy, stupid people experience life before our current times and see what they take for granted.

Public health is a victim of its own success.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-26 01:54 PM

Public health is a victim of its own success.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-26 01:54 PM | Reply | Flag

Public health is by far more a victim of modern medicine in present times. But keep running around in circles with your phake pDh...

"It's a well-documented fact that adverse prescription drug effects and other medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America. Adverse drug events harm 2.7 million hospitalized patients in the U.S. annually, with over 106,000 deaths and that's just for hospitalized patients. Another 350,00 adverse drug events occur in U.S. nursing homes each year.

And believe it or not, by most estimates, only 1-10% of adverse events are ever reported.

Are there no effective safeguards in place to protect consumers from dangerous drugs? And who might be to blame?

That good question was studied by researchers at Harvard (Donald W. Light, Joel Lexchin, and Jonathan J. Darrow)[i]. What did they find? While not absolving physicians of their responsibility to get the facts about drugs " what they discovered about the big pharmaceutical companies is disturbing ...

"Institutional corruption is a normative concept of growing importance that embodies the systemic dependencies and informal practices that distort an institution's societal mission.

An extensive range of studies and lawsuits already documents strategies by which pharmaceutical companies hide, ignore, or misrepresent evidence about new drugs; distort the medical literature; and misrepresent products to prescribing physicians.

We focus on the consequences for patients: millions of adverse reactions. After defining institutional corruption, we focus on evidence that it lies behind the epidemic of harms and the paucity of benefits...

The authors of this study found that institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical industry occurs on three levels:

Lobbying efforts and political contributions
Industry pressure on the FDA
Commercializing the role of physicians"

www.riscassi-davis.com

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-26 04:31 PM

Practicing medicine without a license is a crime and RFKjr shows us why!

#5 | Posted by danni

#3 killer in our country is "licensed" healthcare.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-26 04:33 PM

"It's a well-documented fact that adverse prescription drug effects and other medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America."

Single Payer would go a long way towards avoiding adverse drug interactions.

Because all the drugs someone is prescribed would be listed in the same place.

Same is true to a lesser extent for medical errors, because without it, Provider X does not have easy access to know what Provider Y and Provider Z have done.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 04:36 PM

"#3 killer in our country is "licensed" healthcare."

Two questions:

What's the rank in other countries?

Is American health care better than other countries?

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 04:37 PM

It's a well-documented fact that adverse prescription drug effects and other medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America.

You should thank your lucky stars you didn't die of ivermectin poisoning, TurdBoy.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-26 04:38 PM

"Adverse drug events harm 2.7 million hospitalized patients in the U.S. annually, with over 106,000 deaths"

106,000?
Those are rookie numbers.
Signed,
Trump's COVID death toll

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 04:41 PM

Cod liver oil is what cured us when we was young. The reason it don't work for these kids is cause they Mexican.

#17 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-26 04:41 PM

Cod liver oil is what cured us when we was young. The reason it don't work for these kids is cause they Mexican.
#17 | Posted by fortfisher

Exactly how old are you?!?

#18 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-26 04:45 PM

Old enough to know what a real woman is.

#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-26 04:49 PM

"children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage."

Yeah, that's the thing not all vitamins are healthy to take in large amounts. Vitamins that are not water-soluble get stored in the body and can cause liver damage. I know this because I have to take high doses of Vitamin D, and so I have to have the Vitamin D levels in my blood tested periodically to make sure I don't overdose on it:

Water-Soluble vs. Fat-Soluble Vitamins

www.webmd.com

#20 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-26 04:55 PM

Cod liver oil is what cured us when we was young. The reason it don't work for these kids is cause they Mexican.
#17 | Posted by fortfisher

^
Childhood Measles causes permanent, irreversible brain damage.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 04:56 PM

Childhood Measles causes permanent, irreversible brain damage.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Only on you genetically inferior races.

#22 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-26 05:41 PM

You should thank your lucky stars you didn't die of ivermectin poisoning, TurdBoy.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-26 04:38 PM | Reply | Flag

Says the guy who never listened to the Surgeon General about ---- health.

#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-26 07:55 PM

Just because your -------- smells like a sewer and you're on the verge of colon cancer, doesn't mean everyone's is.

Heterosexual men are some of the dirtiest people on earth.

Basic hygiene eludes them. Let alone more advanced forms of hygiene.

I feel sorry for anyone that has to see you naked.

Mostly the livestock you rape.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-26 07:59 PM

Heterosexual men are some of the dirtiest people on earth

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-26 07:59

So, you're not a dirty ----------. bet you love some eau de goat cologne behind the ------- so you bury you face in them and pretend you're four years old with your uncle mahmoud the goat herder.

#25 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-26 08:43 PM

fortisfisher is closeted.

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-03-26 08:52 PM

alexandike is retarded.

#27 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-26 09:00 PM

vitamin A may be administered to infants and children in the United States with measles as part of supportive management. Children with severe measles, such as those who are hospitalized, should be managed with vitamin A.

www.cdc.gov

#28 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-26 10:17 PM

Daddysfist is a fan of liver damage.

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-26 10:18 PM

vitamin A megadoses (200,000 international units (IUs) on each day for two days) lowered the number of deaths from measles in hospitalized children under the age of two years. Two doses of vitamin A are not considered to be too expensive, and are not likely to produce adverse effects.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

#30 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-26 10:20 PM

Call to Action
Vitamin A for Measles
Management in the US

www.nfid.org

#31 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-26 10:20 PM

Physicians at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they've now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage."

Daddysfist's favorite heroin addict is a genius

#32 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-26 10:22 PM

Call to Action
Vitamin A for Measles
Management in the US
www.nfid.org
#31 | Posted by itchyp

Also from that website:

Measles is making a comeback around the world

Every year, measles is brought into the US by unvaccinated travelers who get infected by the virus while in other countries. Anyone who is not vaccinated is at risk of getting measles. Misinformation continues to circulate about the role that vitamins, specifically vitamin A, plays in managing the disease.

Only the measles vaccine can prevent measles--All children should get 2 doses of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine to prevent measles

1. Vitamins do NOT prevent measles

Vitamins should NOT be used to prevent measles

Routinely getting an overload of vitamins can actually hurt you--For example, too much vitamin A can cause dizziness, nausea, headache, coma, and even death

2. Giving high doses of vitamins may be dangerous

Due to the danger of overdoses, high-dose vitamin A should only be used in the management of measles under the direct supervision of a healthcare professional once a diagnosis is confirmed

Stay up-to-date with all recommended vaccines, including MMR

Stay healthy by exercising and eating a balanced diet. The best sources of vitamin A include: milk, eggs, cheese, fortified breakfast cereals, leafy green vegetables, orange vegetables, and fish.

#33 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-27 12:23 AM

#31

Hurry up and die, -------.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-27 12:28 AM

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