Liver damage from high doses if vitamin A, some of it irreversable showing up in kids in Texas.

[Swede]

RFK Jr must be proud.

“It’s coming out of the health and wellness … influencer industry that downplays the importance of vaccines and tries to promote various spectacular cures like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or vitamin A,” Hotez added.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-03-28/measles-outbreak-leads-to-dangerous-vitamin-a-toxicity

[Horse with no Name]

1. And I am going to say

That none of these children should be allowed to get a new liver. I know this is awful but these parents will not safeguard a new organ.

[chia]

4. And make the children pay for the sins of their parents? No. Just no. You're right. What you said is awful.

[Horse with no Name]

6. It is realistic

These parents will not do vaccines and have already shown a propensity to follow woo woo science.
Organs are rare. Pediatric organs are even more rare. They need to go to someone whose parents believe in science and will do everything in their power to caretake them. They wouldn’t even care take their children’s own organs. They will not caretake the organs of another child whose parents want to give someone else a chance.

[Mountainguy]

11. Maybe better to remove them

From their guardianship.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I would be okay with that. N/t

[Gore1FL]

8. They already deny organs to people who refuse to vaccinate.

There is a finite number available with more demand than supply.

[Hugin]

2. To me, one of the worst things about the misuse of a vital nutrient...

Is that “vitamin A” is a vital nutrient. Nobody needs ivermectin and few need hydroxychloroquine.

We all need Vitamin A and it’s vilification is going to have lasting negative effects.

Tequila Bob throws it out there in one form. Yet, there are at least two that I am aware of and humans need some of both. The bottom line is that the only thing Vitamin A “cures” is the malnutrition of not having enough Vitamin A.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A

[GreenWave]

3. But none of RFK jr's kids have it. How can that be?

[Ms. Toad]

5. Nothing at the link suggests the liver damage they are seeing is irreversible

It can be, with chronic overconsumption of vitamin A (a period of 1-8 years). But the linked story (and stories the story linked to) don't suggest that is what they are seeing now in kids in Texas.

[Emrys]

7. The liver can be very resilient

It's an unusual organ that can recover from severe abuse and in some cases regenerate. But who wants to toss that dice unless they have to?

An unnecessary setback at an early age can store up trouble for the future, especially if there are comorbidities. And obviously a lot depends on access to decent lifestyle and healthcare.

[struggle4progress]

9. Texas hospital treating children with vitamin A toxicity

(NewsNation) — Children in West Texas are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A amid misinformation spreading about its ability to treat measles.

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirmed to Texas Public Radio that it admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized because of measles complications and now have elevated levels of vitamin A. The outlet reports that this is resulting in “abnormal liver function.”

Taking too much vitamin A can “pose various adverse effects, disrupting the body’s equilibrium and overall well-being,” the National Institutes of Health states ...

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/texas-hospital-children-vitamin-a-toxicity-reports/

[struggle4progress]

10. Medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak

Texas Public Radio | By David Martin Davies
Published March 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM CDT

Medical disinformation connected to the West Texas measles outbreak has created a new problem. Children are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A.

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirms it is treating children with severe cases of measles who are also suffering from vitamin A toxicity. According to the hospital, they have admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized due to measles complications but have elevated levels of vitamin A that is resulting in abnormal liver function.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading misinformation about vaccines, recommended in an article published March 2 on FOX News to take vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate and severe infections ...

https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Most vitamins are water soluble

and any extra you take isn't stored in your body. It's just excreted in your urine. Vitamin A is fat soluble and any extra you consume is stored in your liver. That's why it can build up to toxic liver. The livers of polar bears and bearded seals are so high in vitamin A that you can die from eating too much of them. The Inuit will eat most of the parts of animals they hunt, but they not to eat the liver of these animals.

[Hugin]

14. The others are vitamins D, E, and K. n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Yup. You can OD on some minerals too

Brazil nuts have so much selenium, which builds up in the body, that you really shouldn't eat more than 2 or 3 a day.