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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctor in Texas pushing back on RFK, Jr.'s  of Vitamin A for measles!

"One mother...told her she was giving her two children high doses of vitamin A to ward off measles, based on an article posted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nearly a decade before he became President Donald Trump's top health official."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-push-back-parents-embrace-120353827.html[/quote]

Vitamin A is fat soluble and builds up in the body. Too much can lead to toxicity. And it's only a factor for measles if you are malnourished -- with a normal diet, adding more Vitamin A does not protect against measles.

[quote]Fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A can lead to toxicity because your body doesn’t excrete any excess — it stores it. Vitamin A’s presence in so many different supplements compounds the problem.
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“Patients who take a variety of supplements are getting much more vitamin A than they should,” says Dr. Young. 
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[b]Acute vitamin A toxicity symptoms[/b]

Acute vitamin A toxicity happens when somebody — usually a child — accidentally ingests a megadose of vitamin A. Common symptoms include:
- Headache
- Rash, which may cause the affected skin to peel later
- Drowsines
- Irritability
- Stomach pain, nausea and vomiting

In acute vitamin A toxicity cases, symptoms should resolve over time. Still, if an individual (especially a child) is experiencing these symptoms, you should call Poison Control, and, if directed, go to the nearest emergency room.

[b]Chronic vitamin A toxicity symptoms[/b]

Chronic vitamin A toxicity happens when a person takes excessive doses of vitamin A (10,000 IU or more) per day over a prolonged period. The symptoms are more subtle and harder to distinguish from other conditions. They include:
- Severe headaches and pressure in your skull (idiopathic intracranial hypertension)
- Hair issues like sparse, coarse hair and alopecia of your eyebrows
- Skin issues, like dry, rough, itchy skin (pruritus) and cracked lips
- Weakness and susceptibility to fractures
- Enlarged liver (hepatomegaly) or spleen (splenomegaly)

Children may experience loss of appetite (anorexia), joint pain (arthralgia) and excessive bone growth (cortical hyperostosis). Vitamin A toxicity can also cause “failure to thrive,” which — while not a good thing — sounds scarier than it is. It basically means your child’s growth has either slowed or stopped.

Cleveland Clinic: Vitamin A Toxicity: How Much Vitamin A Is Too Much?
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/vitamin-a-toxicity[/quote]

These people are so stupid. Sacrificing your child on the altar of your need to have special magical knowledge.

Vitamin A is the main ingredient in Retin-A, the acne medication that is so teratogenic you have to be demonstrated to be on two forms of birth control to get it prescribed.[/quote]

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