By keeping Kennedy’s advice, patients from the Oder turn to unverified treatment methods

Fighting to stop the raging Odra epidemic in Western Texas, public health officials are increasingly worried that the inhabitants rely on unverified measures approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary for Health and Admitting a doctor, until the disease worsens.

Hospitals and officials The alarm sounded this weekEdition of an explanatory notification which symptoms of measles justified immediate medical care and emphasizing the importance of timely treatment.

“I am worried that we have children and parents who take all other drugs and then delay care, “said Katherine Wells, public health director at Lubbock in Texas, where many of the worst children in this explosion have been hospitalized.

She added that some seriously ill children received alternative remedies such as cod liver oil. “If they are so ill and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in the hospital a day or two earlier,” she said.

The grave explosion spread to almost 260 People in Texas. Until now, 34 patients have been hospitalized and one child has died. In the neighboring countess of Nowy Mexico, the virus fell ill with two and hospitalized two. There were also two cases in Oklahomie related to the explosion.

Health officials in Texas believe that the real number of cases is much higher. In total, this year in the United States there were 301 Odra, the highest since 2019, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention gave on Friday.

In his first public statements about the explosion, Mr. Kennedy stood in the face of intense slack for minimizing the situation, claiming that “this is not unusual” and falsely claimed that many people were hospitalized there “mainly for quarantine”.

In the following weeks, Mr. Kennedy changed his approach, offering a muted vaccine recommendation for people in Western Texas, while promoting unverified treatment methods, such as cod liver oil, which has vitamin A, and advertising “almost wonderful and short-lived” recovery of steroids or antibiotics.

There is no such cure for measles, only medicines that will lend a hand you cope with symptoms. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent infection.

While doctors sometimes gave high doses of vitamin A in the hospital to lend a hand manage severe cases of measles, there is no reliable evidence that supplements are effective in the treatment or prevention of measles.

Experts also noticed that antibiotics that fight bacterial infections can be used to treat secondary infections, but do not stop the Odra herself, which is a virus.

In Gaines in Texas, the epicenter of the Odra explosion, alternative medicine has always been popular. Many in a enormous Mennonite community in the area where most of the Odra cases have been focused, avoid interacting with the medical system and maintain a long tradition of natural remedies.

Over the past few weeks, pharmacies In Western Texas, he fought to maintain bottles of vitamin tablets and cod liver oil supplements on their shelves.

And this week, doctors from the Seminole Memorial Hospital, which is located in the center of Gaines, noticed that the number of patients arriving at the Odra symptoms suddenly fell. Those who appeared were ill than patients observed in previous weeks.

Even when the cases in the community increased, Dr. Leila Myrick, a doctor in the hospital, said that she had done half the number of Odra tests compared to the week earlier.

She was worried that her patients entered less than a mile from hospital to pop-up clinic, in which a doctor from a neighboring city extracted alternative measures, such as cod liver oil and vitamin C.

The doctor, Dr. Ben Edwards, is well known in the area of ​​podcasts, which often discuss the dangers of vaccines, and for his biological renewal clinic in Lubbock, which rejects the central principles of medicine, such as the idea that germs cause certain diseases.

In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Kennedy said that he talked to Dr. Edwards (whom Dr. Ed Benjamin misunderstood) and found out “what works on Earth.”

In E -Mail given by the employee Dr. Edwards confirmed that he had talked to Mr. Kennedy for about 15 minutes in what he described as a telephone conversation “gathering information”. Dr. Edwards refused to talk directly with the Fresh York Times.

In the following days, hundreds of people from the Mennonite community lined up in a makeshift clinic of Dr. Edwards, taking place behind a local health food store, said Tina Siemens, who helped organize the event.

Mrs. Siemens said that people seeking to treat energetic measles infections and people who hoped to prevent presence.

To get a sufficient number of supplements for the clinic, Dr. Edwards enlisted one of his patients, a remote control, to fly to Scottsdale in Arizona, and collected almost a thousand bottles of C vitamin supplements C and cod liver oil, both as a drink with lemon flavor, as well as unwashed pliable gels, said the owner of the company Supplement, Patrick Sullivan.

“How much do you have in the warehouse and how quickly can you get it to me?” Mr. Sullivan remembered that Dr. Edwards asks.

The treatments were free, said Mrs. Siemens. Members of the Children’s Health Defense, Non-Profit Anti-Department, which Mr. Kennedy helped to find before becoming the Secretary for Health, they created Donation page Online, which collected over USD 16,000 to cover the cost of “necessary vitamins, supplements and medicines.”

Odra symptoms will often solve themselves within a few weeks. But in uncommon cases, the virus can cause pneumonia, which hinders patients, especially children, to introduce oxygen into the lungs. There may also be brain swelling, which can cause constant problems such as blindness, deafness and intellectual disability. Both complications can be fatal.

During this epidemic, hospitalized children with pneumonia had to be intubated, said Mrs. Wells, Health Director Lubbock. Under these circumstances, timely care may mean a difference between life and death.

Patsy Stinchfield, a direct president of the National Foundation for infectious diseases, for decades make constant remedies to make measles more fatal.

She worked as a nurse in a hospital in Minnesota during the outbreak of the Oder in 1989, who killed several children. Two of them came to the hospital in a critical state after their parents sought them at home Classic medicinal therapies.

“They keep their child at home for too long and try these home remedies,” she said. “They went straight from ER to the intensive care unit and died. “