AI6YR Ben16h ago

AP:It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns

"Medical mistrust is spreading beyond vaccines: Refusals of vitamin K shots for newborns have nearly doubled since 2017, alarming doctors nationwide.
Newborns without the shot are 81 times more likely to suffer potentially deadly bleeding, a preventable complication that once affected 1 in 60 babies."

(Better, non paywall link! Thanks Denise!)
https://apnews.com/article/babies-newborns-pediatricians-vitamin-k-hepatitis-b-erythromycin-9126463f0cb38b9778fb77bc0d071776

#healthcare #health #antivaxxers

New parents are shunning proven preventive care for their infants in effort to be 'natural'

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots rose steeply between 2017 and 2024. Those shots can prevent potentially deadly bleeding. A subsequent research review found that U.S. parents who declined vitamin K shots were 90 times more likely to also refuse the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye ointment that can prevent potentially blinding infections. Pediatricians say these refusals put their youngest patients at grave risk.

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Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography14h ago

@ai6yr Yeah sadly I can directly attest to this. My wife also an RN works in a NICU and this is becoming more and more common.

The Vitamin K is critical to prevent bleeding and strokes
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/protective-vitamin-shots-newborns-decline

And the eye ointment? TO prevent pink eye or anything else (at that age it can result in blindness) they picked up while being born.

https://www.aao.org/education/clinical-statement/use-of-erythromycin-in-prevention-of-neonatal-opht

These parents should have to put money in escrow to cover these avoidable problems.

Why? If a kid has a stroke, the odds are long if they can ever go home. We can send INCREDIBLY medically complex home and our incredible parents can do amazing things (I am talking ventilators, feeding tubes et al.) but some cannot and these go to nursing homes. We become very close to the families because we are their ride home for every procedure, every admission and the like. The sad reality is this level of care will costs 10's of millions over the course of this kiddo's life Maybe these imbeciles should put their money where there ignorance is

Protective vitamin shots for newborns on decline

Scientists identified an ongoing drop in newborns receiving a vitamin shot that helps to prevent dangerous bleeding.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Show threadMsMerope14h ago

@cvvhrn @ai6yr

yeah, but until it actually happens to THEM - it won't happen....

Show threadMsMerope14h ago
@cvvhrn @ai6yr
this one hit hard
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VK9GgrPwp2s
Doctor calmly tries to explain risks to anti-vaccine parents | The Pitt | BINGE

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Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography14h ago

@MsMerope @ai6yr God, How did we get to this point?

Did vaccines create this issue? I mean before herd immunity maybe these nutters had a Darwinian Seed Propagation Failure via offspring demise from preventable Illness or DSPFVODFPI

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell

@cvvhrn @MsMerope @ai6yr

The Koch brothers. The same damn rich people who funded cigarette misinformation, climate misinformation, and science skepticism.

These people hate public health, because they have the pesky habit of identifying their deadly products.

The very worst of them are a freaking extinction cult. What do you think AI in robots replacing everybody is for, or more practically what all the surveillance in population control surveillance awards is for?

These guys hate everyone

4:47amWeb
Show threadAI6YR Ben14h ago
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn @MsMerope That last line is very true. At least, my small sample of billionaires I know or have run across, a chunk of them definitely hate everyone. (not all, mind you... but more "terrible people" than "good people" the more money people have, for sure).
Show threadMsMerope14h ago

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn

they're like Smaug - all us peasants are a threat to their hoard.

Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography14h ago
@MsMerope @ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell are you TRYING to short out my monitor? LOL
Show threadAI6YR Ben14h ago
@MsMerope @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn I mean, essentially this is M*sk, he's got so much money he can't possibly spend it all in his lifetime, yet he must have more.
Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography14h ago

@ai6yr @MsMerope @GhostOnTheHalfShell Man if there was only a way to monetize my dated pop culture references

ITS NEVER ENOUGH!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDD1tW59Mjg

Wall Street (5/5) Movie CLIP - How Much is Enough? (1987) HD

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Show threadAI6YR Ben13h ago
@cvvhrn @MsMerope @GhostOnTheHalfShell Ah, yes.
Show threadMsMerope13h ago

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn
a little OCD maybe?

but instead of stamps or baseball cards - it's wealth. 🤷‍♀️

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell13h ago

@MsMerope @ai6yr @cvvhrn

I listen to audiobooks of Tolkien’s legendarium, his depiction of evil either as Morgoth or Sauron, is very apt for the time we are living in

Show threadMsMerope13h ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr @cvvhrn

The Mind's Eye did a radio serialized version of the hobbit, lotr, and I think they also did the silmarillion or that was the BBC 🤔

BBC also did a version of the hobbit and lotr; however I prefer the Mind's Eye version.

back in the day an NPR station out of san jose (KCSM?) diid "Reader's Theater on Sunday nights.
Tolkien
Star Wars
Hitchhikers
Jack Flanders
X -1
Canticle

and others I'm probably forgetting.