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@luckytran@med-mastodon.comDoctors in West Texas—where there is a measles outbreak—are seeing unvaccinated hospitalized patients with signs of vitamin A toxicity.
There is no evidence that it can prevent measles, but overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences.
This is a result of misinformation and is what happens when you appoint an anti-vaxxer to lead the national health agency.
@luckytran At least they aren't inhaling ivermectin...
*Sigh*
@invadersil @luckytran That’s next, well, at least possibly in Alabama.. https://wiregrassdailynews.com/news/alabama/2025-02-18/new-bill-could-allow-pharmacists-to-dispense-ivermectin-without-prescription/
@luckytran "Texas reports severe lack of eye of newt".
"This is all Biden's fault for not securing a strategic newt-eye reserve for times of emergency."
@xenotrope @luckytran no kidding.
Although it's nice that the pandemic-era eye of newt shortage is over. It made it really hard to get good mustard.
@xenotrope @luckytran ("eye of newt" is usually just an obfuscated term for mustard seed)
@laird @xenotrope @luckytran I was not not aware of that.
@luckytran I realise you know this already, but for those who may not, vit A is vital to the healthy functioning of the body, but can also be toxic in high doses and lead to hypervitaminosis A, which comes with a bewilderingly long list of unpleasant symptoms!
So long, I can't even fit them all into a 500-character post, so look up "hypervitaminosis A" if you wish to learn more. It's one reason that eating too much liver, despite it being nutrient-rich, is a bad idea.
It's very high in vit A.
@ApostateEnglishman @luckytran
Eating polar bear liver ONCE can kill you.
Someone tell RFKJR how tasty it is.
@RealGene @luckytran I didn't know that! Every day is a school day...
The toxicity of their livers still isn't the *main* reason I'd rather not get too close to polar bears. 
@RealGene @luckytran Admitting to not knowing things, and also graciously accepting when you're wrong, are the only ways to be right more often than not.
Indeed, science itself is the formalized, iterative process of correcting errors. 
@luckytran
Stiff competition for Darwin awards this year ( #measles #misinformation )…
They know people will die, but do it anyway. What does that make them?
@rs_hole Eugenicists.
@luckytran
The most dangerous thing in mens life is to start life. The second is bed, most die
there!
@luckytran I wonder how much of this is linked to allowing consumer-directed adverts for prescription medicines. It really struck me the first time I visited the US: ads in television for things that I was in no way qualified to evaluate, telling me to tell my doctor to give me some drug. I can’t imagine trust in the medical profession surviving that onslaught.
Vitamin A is not a prescription medication.
This is people listening to a lethal quack (RFK Jr.) who has unacceptably been allowed to be in charge of the health department.
Matera the Mad@michael_w_busch @david_chisnall @luckytran
The point is that people have been so bombarded with marketing nonsense that they are mindless sponges for any nonsense.
@matera @david_chisnall @luckytran
Vitamin overdose quackery goes back nearly a century at this point.
Regardless of changes to marketing rules.
@michael_w_busch @david_chisnall @luckytran
Unscrupulous marketing goes back as far as history. But since media bs saturation became pandemic - as media multiplied and grew - ignorance has multiplied wildly. We have a highly vulnerable population primed for any misinfo.
@luckytran This is just insane… Misinformation really kills.
@luckytran Your daily reminder not to eat #polarbear liver due to its very high #vitaminA content. (other reasons may apply)
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition-you-asked/it-true-you-cannot-eat-polar-bear-liver
@luckytran I think some of the dumbest people in America are gathered together in one area.
@luckytran Glad to see people standing up to these Nazis.
@luckytran Do you have a link to the source of this information?
@luckytran Uh…can’t Vitamin A toxicity detach your muscles from your bones if it’s bad enough?
@MisuseCase jfc that’s an image in my head I don’t need.
@luckytran I miss when the idiots were only killing themselves with their absurd remedies rather than their darwinism contributing to the death of others.
@luckytran This hurts my Public Health brain...
@luckytran this is basically what Accutane is. I was on this for acne reasons as a kid, a synthetic vitamin A.
I needed monthly blood tests while on it to make sure my liver wasn’t being by killed by it, and it causes serious birth defects.
Additionally: it isn’t fucking water soluble. It hangs out in your body for years. I couldn’t donate blood for ages and ages from being on it.
The people taking this as an alternative are not only just not treating the issue, they’re actively setting themselves up for liver failure and passing along the effects to their fucking kids for *y e a r s*
It has a long half life inside the body.
The irreparable damage this is going to be doing will specifically harm and disfigure people. Holy fuck.
@luckytran Thanks for sharing that information.
For any fellow laypeople reading this thread, the effects make grim reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532916/#_article-31212_s5_
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.
To espouse not getting vaccinated is not only stupid it's criminal neglect