{"id":2023798,"date":"2023-09-06T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/babys-eyes-turn-from-brown-to-bright-blue-after-covid-19-treatment\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:10:45","slug":"babys-eyes-turn-from-brown-to-bright-blue-after-covid-19-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/babys-eyes-turn-from-brown-to-bright-blue-after-covid-19-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby&#8217;s eyes change color from brown to blue after COVID-19 treatment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbabys-eyes-turn-from-brown-to-bright-blue-after-covid-19-treatment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Incredible Transformation: Baby&#8217;s Eyes Turn Bright Blue After COVID-19 Treatment<\/h2>\n<p>The brown \u2064eyes of \u200ca baby in Thailand turned bright blue overnight after receiving a COVID-19 medicine\u200b commonly used in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The infant was\u2062 prescribed favipiravir, a drug approved by the Thai government for babies with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/05\/babys-brown-eyes-turn-blue-overnight-after-covid-19-treatment\/?utm_campaign=nypost&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries, including Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,\u2064 Moldova, and Kazakhstan, \u2064have also approved the\u200c use of \u2062this\u2064 drug. Italy even granted it \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ny-health-department-requires-healthcare-providers-discriminate-based-race-administering-antiviral-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency approval<\/a> in \u20642020, the \u200cyear the pandemic struck.<\/p>\n<p>Although the drug has received positive \u200dreviews\u200d in the U.S., it has not been approved by the Food and\u2063 Drug Administration for use in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A case report on this astonishing incident was published in the April 2023 issue of the medical journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fped.2023.1154814\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontiers in \u2064Pediatrics<\/a>. Unfortunately, the specific date of the case was not provided in\u2062 the study.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dstudy emphasized the importance of \u2062monitoring the use of favipiravir\u2064 in children due to its potential\u2062 side effect \u2063of corneal discoloration, which has not yet been fully \u200dunderstood in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-suggests-pregnant-women-vaccinated-for-covid-19-may-pass-on-antibodies-to-infants\/\" title=\"Study Suggests Pregnant Women Vaccinated For COVID-19 May Pass On Antibodies To Infants\">long-term effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u2064the study, other side effects such as diarrhea and temporary visual blurring have been observed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rfk-jr-takes-leftists-school-miracle-drug-says-helped-stop-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of this drug<\/a>. Additionally,\u200b previous cases \u2064of unusual coloration have\u200b been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u200b revealed that favipiravir has been shown to cause fluorescence in human hair and nails, possibly due to the drug itself, its metabolites, or\u2062 other tablet\u200b components. Therefore, it is crucial to monitor and report such cases to gain a comprehensive \u2064understanding of the potential effects of medication on corneal discoloration, especially among children.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Baby boy\u2019s dark-brown eyes \u2064turn bright BLUE overnight after \u200dbeing given\u2064 a COVID treatment | Daily Mail Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g55iZSBh9x\">https:\/\/t.co\/g55iZSBh9x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr\u200b David Cartland (@CartlandDavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CartlandDavid\/status\/1699129407430881528?\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to the study, approximately 18 hours after the baby received the drug, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trust-me-im-a-nurse-mother-walked-in-on-alleged-serial-killer-nurse-murdering-her-newborn-court-hears\/\" title=\"\u2018Trust me, I\u2019m A Nurse\u2019: Mother Walked In On Alleged Serial Killer Nurse Murdering Her Newborn, Court Hears\">mother noticed<\/a> the remarkable change in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/do-this-monthly-and-you-may-slash-your-cancer-risk\/\" title=\"Do This Monthly and You May Slash Your Cancer Risk\">eye color<\/a>, which turned bright blue.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, after about five days, the baby&#8217;s \u200ceyes\u2062 returned to their normal\u2064 color. The mother immediately stopped administering the drug upon \u2062noticing the eye\u2064 color change.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c study reported that there was no apparent damage to\u2062 the\u200b baby&#8217;s eyesight as a result of this incident.<\/p>\n<p>This case was the second known instance of\u200c such an occurrence with this drug. In 2021,\u200d a 20-year-old man in India experienced\u2062 a change in eye \u2064color after taking \u200bfavipiravir. However, his eye color returned to normal the day after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-blasts-biden-we-are-headed-for-border-chaos\/\" title=\"Rubio Blasts Biden: \u2018We Are Headed For Border Chaos\u2019\">stopped taking<\/a> the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the potential for adverse effects, favipiravir remains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/babys-eyes-turn-from-brown-to-bright-blue-after-covid-19-treatment\/\" title=\"Baby's eyes change color from brown to blue after COVID-19 treatment.\">primary oral antiviral treatment<\/a> for children \u200bwith COVID-19 in Thailand, as stated \u200din\u200c the\u2062 study.<\/p>\n<p>However, recent research has raised concerns about the safety and \u200defficacy of favipiravir. The Prevent Severe COVID-19 study revealed that patients with COVID-19 should not be treated with favipiravir due to its\u2063 lack of demonstrated efficacy\u2064 in terms \u2063of time to sustained clinical recovery, progression to severe COVID-19, and cessation of viral shedding.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u200d details, you can\u2063 read the full article <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/babys-eyes-turn-brown-bright-blue-covid-19-treatment\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby in Thailand had his brown eyes transformed into bright blue after being administered a commonly used COVID-19 medicine in the country. The Thai government approved the use of favipiravir for infants with mild to moderate symptoms. This medication has also been authorized in Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2023799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}