Na ikiwekwa kwa sukari watu wana piga nduru

Are you white?
I don't know what kind of quack you are but your must be the quacking kind.
You think people visiting wazua have kids at risk of vitamin A deficiency. The doses you are advising are for high risk children who have malnutrition, xeropthalmia, refugees and children with measles.
Wazua kids are more likely to be obese than malnutrition.
According to the institute of medicine risk of hypervitaminosis has been observed at rates of 21000 IU. So risk of chronic vitaminosis is definitely very real just from following your silly advice.
What happens when the wazuans you advice who now believe that one 200000IU is safe spread the word and you have all this wazuans popping vitamin A cause its a vitamin and it is safe and start popping it every other day.
Be serious the risk of chronic and acute hypervitaminosis A is real and you shouldn't be dishing out stupid advice because you are protected by a pseudonym.

Vitamin A supplementation is OFTEN recommended for children who are sick (according to Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, WHO/UNICEF) or for children living in areas affected by Vitamin A deficiency. In most countries, Vitamin A is given as part of immunization along with the measles vaccine at 9 months of age.

http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/vitamina.shtml

I have learnt alot from this thread

@Tony Stark

Your argument clearly portrays someone who reads internet information alot and thereby think you know alot and qualified online and can educate people on areas you have no practice or authority !
This kind of masquerading as a qualified medical expert leaves no doubt that you are worse than an idiot !

ME TOO.

@ forester, i also saw the obituaries, so sad a cute little angel passed away at Getrude's Muthaiga, guys please advise your friends to be careful of Getrude's they will definitely kill all our children

BS I suspect you are a Clinical Officer. I have nothing against clinical officers like you. Infact I blame my collegues who did not train you well when you were in KMTC. I am sorry for your poor grounding in basic physiology and your non existent knowledge on epidemiology.
My second differential to you arcane thought process should suggest you are probably a Veterinarian. Hence your limited scope to the repercussion to you horrible advice and your inability to profile and categorize medical conditions.
If you are a CO you can redeem yourself by attending KMA CPD (continuous professional development) CO are allowed to attend. It's free and you can get some knowledge. This is my advice as a Wazua brother. There is a CPD in NH every week go and get some knowledge.
If you are a Vet please stick to artificial insemination and newcastle disease let the real doctors do what they are supposd to do!

Okay let me briefly educate you on something called double disease burden.It occurs often in middle income and low income countries where the prevalence of obesity and malnutrition coexist in the same communities. Nairobi is a good example where you will get malnourished children from slums and other poor communities and in the same hospital find children suffering from slipped capital femoral epiphysis(SUFE). I know you might not have been taught this in KMTC or VET school but this condition occurs in fat kids.
PS: Being fat and immune system are very related and for that you will need a lecture you can go to PubMed (Where i am published but do I say) and get informed and educated.

For more information please go read Nelsons textbook of paediatrics and vitamin A hypervitaminosis it discusses prevalence and how it occurs and your silly advice is exactly how it occurs.

I hope you can now withdraw your lynching request and I hope you achieve your dream of being a REAL Doctor.

First; I doubt you are the right person to judge how frequently you and your school mates used to fall sick - you being the subject of investigation and also the investigator! Perhaps you should check the class attendance register and find out the number of instances pupils missed school on account of being sick. Then compare the result with the present situation in the same school.

Secondly; chances are that the infant mortality rate for children under five [pre-schoolers] was sky high - which years are we talking about? 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s?

So those of you who made it to school-age (above 6 years) had already been naturally selected... you were people with strong disease-resistant bodies.

It is one of those paradoxes that we have to contend with: the more medical care with give to infants, the more the "weaklings" we allow to survive...and the more the medical care we need for them as they grow older. Hence the apparent prevalence of myriads of diseases.

There is a school of thought that says that the medical/health profession should be banned! It argues that doctors are weakening the human race by intervening and allowing weak genes to reproduce. Therefore, it will be only a matter of time before a critical mass of these "weaklings" is reached and then the human race will be eradicated from the face of the earth!

@ Burining Spear and Tony Stark,

I have enjoyed all the information given by both of you. It is not a matter of who is better than the other. Each has their own pursuations and there is nothing wrong with that. All professions have it, Medicine, accounting, teaching etc.

Live and let live.