Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that stays within the physique. Taking an excessive amount of over longer intervals may cause vomiting, headache, fatigue, joint and bone ache, blurry imaginative and prescient, and pores and skin and hair issues. Additional, it will probably result in dangerously excessive strain contained in the cranium that pushes on the mind, in addition to liver injury, confusion, coma, and different issues, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Nonetheless, in an interview with Fox Information this week, Kennedy endorsed an unconventional routine of a steroid, an antibiotic and cod liver oil, praising two Texas docs for giving it to sufferers. One of many docs Kennedy championed was disciplined by the state medical board in 2003 for “uncommon use of risk-filled medicines,” according to a report by CNN.

In a but extra worrying signal, Reuters reported Friday afternoon that the CDC is planning to conduct a large study on whether the MMR vaccine is linked to autism. This taxpayer-funded effort would happen even though many years of analysis and quite a few high-quality research have already been performed—and so they have persistently disproven or discovered no connection between the vaccine and autism.

The company’s transfer is strictly what Democratic senators feared when Kennedy was confirmed as the country’s top health official. In Senate hearings, Kennedy refused to say that vaccines don’t trigger autism. Democratic senators rapidly warned that his anti-vaccine stance couldn’t solely transfer the nation backward within the struggle towards vaccine-preventable ailments, but additionally maintain again autism analysis geared toward discovering the actual trigger(s) in addition to higher therapies.

“Once you proceed to sow doubt about settled science it makes it unattainable for us to maneuver ahead,” Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) stated in a Senate listening to. “It is the relitigating and rehashing … it freezes us in place.”