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9. Texas hospital treating children with vitamin A toxicity
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 12:28 PM
Mar 2025

(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/

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