They use to use silver nitrate in the baby's eyes, but because the pharms made no money on it they convinced most hospitals to use unreliable antibiotics instead. A hospital locally was using antibiotics, and a baby was blinded because the gonerreah it was exposed to was immune to the antibiotics. They were sued for a large amount of money, and it was shown in court that the hospital abandoned a protocol that was 100% effective for one that was not effective just so they and the drug companies could make more money. Since losing that suit, they and a number of other hospitals switched back to silver nitrate from what I can understand.
Marshall Max Sanders wrote: > Is it still the protocol to put a silver compound in newborn baby's > eyes? I was mildly surprised to hear my daughter has been offered > this as an option from her midwife. I knew this was done for the > possibility of syphilis caused blindness previously, but still, with > the ability to test for these things? Is it a silver nitrate > compound? > > They also offer a Vitamin K pill or tab - what is up with that? > > Wave > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.
