RFK Jr. Suggests These Supplements Can Help Measles Treatment. Here's What Medical Experts Say.
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Recently, more than 200 people have contracted the illness, which can be fatal for kids and adults.
More and more people are becoming infected in the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico, where more than 200 people have tested positive for the illness. The disease has killed one unvaccinated child in Texas and is suspected in the death of an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a Fox News interview this week that the government is “delivering vitamin A” to West Texas to battle the outbreak, and “they’re getting very, very good results from budesonide, which is a steroid ... and clarithromycin [an antibiotic], and also cod liver oil, which has high concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin D.”
He also promoted the use of vitamin A for measles treatment in a recent Fox News op-ed.
While these statements refer to the treatment of measles in a medical setting, medical experts told HuffPost that they worry Kennedy’s focus on vitamin A and cod liver oil could encourage parents of unvaccinated children, or unvaccinated people themselves, to try supplementation as prevention or treatment at home. They also fear that these statements don’t encourage vaccination enough.
Here’s what medical professionals want everyone to know:
More than 100 people in West Texas are currently sick with the illness, which is avoidable when enough people get vaccinated.
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