West Texas doctors see a measles with complicated diseases by the alternative treatment approved by the vaccine skepticist, including the Minister of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The parents of Texas Gaines County, the center of the development of angry measles, have changed more and more treated treatments with supplements to protect their children who are not vaccinated against the virus.
One of these supplements is Daegu Lantern, which contains vitamin A, Kennedy has been promoted as a miracle treatment for measles. Covenant Children’s Hospital doctors in Texas say that there are so many vitamin A that they have treated children who have not been vaccinated by a small number of vaccinations with signs of liver damage.
Some of them have not received other vitamin A supplements and other vitamin A supplements for several weeks to prevent measles infections, said Dr. Davis, who cares for acute pain in the hospital.
Dr. Davis said, “I had a patient who had taken three weeks for three weeks and four to five days.
Doctors sometimes administer high -capacity vitamin A in the hospital to manage serious measles, but experts should not take them without the supervision of a doctor. Vitamin A is not an effective way to prevent measles. However, measles, pandemic lows and rubella vaccines with two doses are about 97 %.
In high capacity, vitamin A can cause liver damage. Dry and peeled skin; Hair loss; And rare, seizures and coma. So far, doctors at West Texas Hospital have seen patients with yellow skin and high levels of liver enzymes in blood construction.
Many of these patients were in the hospital for severe measles infection. Doctors found that only after the daily laboratory work.
The outbreak, which began in January as of Tuesday, has spread to more than 320 people in Texas. 40 patients were hospitalized and one child died.
In the neighboring New Mexico County, the virus used 43 people and two people. Seven cases of confirmed cases in Oklahoma are also related to the occurrence.
Local doctors and health authorities are increasingly popular with unproven treatment for measles prevention and treatment, which is increasingly concerned about refusing vaccination, which is the only way to prevent measles from infections to delay important treatment and reject vaccination.
Alternative medicine is always popular in Gainz County. Many people in the large -scale Menonite community in the area are clustered in most cases, avoiding interaction with the medical system and complying with long -standing natural therapy.
Health officials said that the popularity of the use of vitamin A measles can go back in an interview with Kennedy. He said, “It is the safest application of vitamin A,” he said.
at Essay On Tuesday afternoon, the Washington Post, Kevin Griffis, a communication director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention until last week, is partially due to the processing of the outbreak of Kennedy. I wrote that I resigned.
Griffis said, “In the last week, I saw a mission in search of carefully infected experts in search of precious time for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatment.
A few weeks after the interview with Fox News pharmacy Texas West struggled to keep vitamin A and Daegu liver supplements on the shelf. Katherine Wells, the public health manager of LubBock, said, “I haven’t heard anything about vitamin A until I speak on television.
One of the doctors, who said that Kennedy said, “Working on the ground,” opened a temporary clinic in Gainz County, opened a variety of treatments including vitamin A supplements, treated active measles, and began to prevent infections.
Dr. Davis suspected that the majority of the children she treated had taken vitamin A supplements at home.
Experts say vitamin A can play an important role in the “support treatment” that doctors provide for serious measles infections.
Dr. William Schaffner, an epidemic specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said that it works by replenishing the depleted body shops by viruses that strengthen the immune system.
In the hospital, the doctor usually provides only two vitamins to children with measles for two days, and “very carefully corrected” according to age and weight.
Dr. Schaffner emphasized that it is not a miracle treatment for the virus and has no antiviral drugs for measles. And there’s no trust that vitamin A will help prevent vitamin A deficiency very rare.
In fact, it is dangerous to give children repeated and high -dose vitamins. Unlike other vitamins that flush out of the body through urine, excessive vitamin A is accumulated in local tissues and is likely to reach dangerous levels over time.
Dr. Lara Johnson, another doctor of LubBock Hospital, said, “I think that prevalent use of that kind is especially important.
“If we take children for several weeks or weeks, it can have a cumulative impact of toxicity.,,,She added.
Dr. Johnson added that local doctors are particularly concerned about their dependence on supplements that local doctors can buy without prescriptions. The label does not always reflect exactly the amount of vitamins with labels, and added that it accepts the recommended doses of unproven sources.
