Now, absolutely no one should take acetaminophen during pregnancy. Who would?
Later, take note of whether the rate of autism declines.
I'm seeing: "Scientists have reacted with dismay at the announcement [linking acetaminophen to autism], warning that the 'fearmongering' will prevent women from accessing pain relief during pregnancy" (in "Taking Tylenol in pregnancy linked to autism, Trump to claim/The president promises ‘one of the biggest medical announcements in US history’, claiming a discovery as to why the disorder developed and treatment" (London Times)).
What's the opposite of "fearmongering"? False reassurance? I don't think this is fearmongering but a wise balance of factors. Who would take acetaminophen while pregnant if it might cause autism? I suspect that what these "scientists" are "dismayed" about is not about the future but the past. It's not that women are going to be afraid. Going forward, they'll just refrain from using acetaminophen. It's easy to use an abundance of caution with respect to something so specific. What's dismaying is the burden of guilt to be laid on women who have already used acetaminophen during pregnancy.
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There is more autism because today autism has a different definition definitely a different definition definitely.
Let's ask the mid-20th century 'scientists' who pushed sugar at every opportunity for quick energy, and the genius who came up with the idea of putting asbestos filters in cigarettes.
For state operatives such as Al Gore and Anthony Fauci, the science is always settled when it supports government initiatives and big spending plans.
Scientists are corrupt sociopaths too. Equity.
"... 'fearmongering' will prevent women from accessing pain relief during pregnancy"
Except that the amount of pain relief someone can get from acetaminophen is pretty trivial. You'll note that no one prescribes just acetaminophen for a broken leg, or recovery from rotator-cuff surgery, or post C-section pain. I'm guessing pregnant women can find other medicines to help with headaches.
I never understood the move away from aspirin, which I always use.
Did you know that you can chew aspirin? Very strong sour(?) taste but the amazing thing is its absolutely pure clean aftertaste.
Anyone remember Ryes Syndrome? That killed a lot of children. Killed a friend of mine inelementary school. What was the outcome. Avoid giving children aspirin if feverish.
Let us hope that no woman is going to rely on Dr. Trump for obstetric guidance. On the other hand, if there are credible medical studies linking autism to tylenol, let's hear about them.
@rhhardin:
These are different chemicals and affect the body differently. Aspirin is an anti-inflammatory that drains fluids from tissues while acetaminophen blocks pain/nerves directly. They are combined with caffeine as a 3-way anti-migraine medication.
Aspirin also causes bad stomach issues for some people, hence "Bufferin" and other coated pills.
I think the real source of concern is the fear of lawsuits.
Two rules that seem to keep being forgotten:
ALL medicines have side-effects.
The dose makes the poison.
Perhaps selling acetaminophen as the single medicine that has NO side-effects--as long as you don't take too high a dose, in which case it will destroy your liver--wasn't such a great idea.
I know for a fact that some nurses refuse to accept that a person can have a bad GI reaction to acetaminophen and act as if the patient who wants to avoid it is drug-seeking.
Apparently in their minds there are only three possible reactions to the drug: nothing at all; 2) life-threatenig anaphylaxis; 3) liver failure. That seems . . . strange.
(It's those things "Everybody knows" that often end up getting you in trouble when applied in different circumstances).
What's dismaying is the burden of guilt to be laid on women who have already used acetaminophen during pregnancy.
My mother smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for most of her life, including the years she had children. I'm sure she had regrets about it later on as the evidence mounted regarding the effects of smoking during pregnancy, but none of us get to choose the circumstances of our birth.
Scientists have reacted with dismay at the announcement, warning that the “fearmongering” will prevent women from accessing pain relief during pregnancy.
Those aren't scientists. A scientist would look at the research.
Just wait until they get around to statins.
Most of the “science” behind the drugs being sold to us is really bad. Drug companies don’t make any money off of things that are found to cause autism if you take it while pregnant.
Doctors are paid to sell drugs and report they are safe.They are not paid if they report side affects.
Aspirin as a substitute?
Randomizer said...
Scientists have reacted with dismay at the announcement, warning that the “fearmongering” will prevent women from accessing pain relief during pregnancy.
Those aren't scientists. A scientist would look at the research.
Perfect comment.
I use to chew aspirin.
The water you use to swallow the {aspirin, tylenol, motrin} does more for your headache than the pill itself. So many symptoms can be alleviated by hydration. CC, JSM
Begley: "I use to chew aspirin."
KInd of like chewing willow bark, the precursor. CC, JSM
Chris said...
Anyone remember Ryes Syndrome? That killed a lot of children. Killed a friend of mine inelementary school. What was the outcome. Avoid giving children aspirin if feverish.
Exactly. The market for children’s aspirin tanked after the linkage to Ryes Syndrome was announced. I remember when Tylenol was a prescription drug. It can cause severe liver damage if abused.
The numbers for autism are staggering. What changed? It’s possible that multiple factors, when combined, cause autism. Is Tylenol one possible factor? To answer that, we need research, not politics.
@john mosby: "The water you use to swallow the {aspirin, tylenol, motrin} does more for your headache than the pill itself."
Nope. They are all different and the effects wear off after 3-5 hours. I've tried them with cold/flu headaches for years and each is very predictable. They have their limits, and the hardcore prescription stuff (i.e., opiods) is on another level.
Simple hydration does help with dehydration headaches of course (dry deserts; low humidity in winter; after exercise).
Scientists have reacted with dismay at the announcement
Yeah, political scientists.
Does Tylenol cause autism?
Before we had Tylenol (acetaminophen) we had aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
Day one, minute one in pharmacology, "All drugs have side effects" which boils down to, "Choose your poison."
Next: Should a pregnant women ride in a car and if so should she use a seat belt?
Does Tylenol cause autism?
Before we had Tylenol (acetaminophen) we had aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
Day one, minute one in pharmacology, "All drugs have side effects" which boils down to, "Choose your poison."
Next: Should a pregnant women ride in a car and if so should she use a seat belt?
The internet told me that in the early 1980's rates of Autism were between 4 and 10 per 10,000. Now they are 1 in 31. That, on the low end, is a 32 fold increase. Given that high of an increase, even assuming there could be a substantial increase due to lower diagnostic criteria now, it isn't unreasonable to assume that there could be common environmental factors that contribute to that increase. Tylenol was first released in 1955 according to the internet.
While I think john mosby was somewhat correct in suggesting that people should look for other organic causes for pain, especially headaches, I wouldn't describe pain relief from acetaminophen as trivial. I take it pretty regularly to control pain from constriction around the nerves in my spine and the relief I get is often evident within minutes. It was also surprisingly good at controlling pain during the period I had a temporary crown on a tooth recently.
In general I wouldn't trivialize pain control. Rest is often one of the best ways to heal and lack of sleep has pretty well known consequences that can be debilitating. Controlling pain to obtain adequate rest is a pretty significant need.
"What's dismaying is the burden of guilt to be laid on women who have already used acetaminophen during pregnancy."
Who is laying the burden of guilt on women? Perhaps some women might feel guilty, but that doesn't mean someone is laying that upon them. Women are not always objects who have actions performed on them.
I haven't seen if the rate of non-verbal autism has increased. Obviously, many more children are now being diagnosed because parents want to know why they're awkward.
A statistician on X says the big Swedish study shows no difference in autism diagnoses among siblings when one had Tylenol and one didn't in utero, but do all mothers keep good records?
prevent women from accessing pain relief during pregnancy
This is garbage thought processing, because 1) there are various forms of pain relief other than acetaminophen, just take another one, 2) information is not banning, 3) Trump nor RFK Jr. are just saying this, because their was a medical study they are citing, 4) no one in the Biden Administration had a problem banning many things people use everyday in their homes.
Birthing people and McNeil Consumer Healthcare hardest hit.
Key findings on acetaminophen and autism
No causal link found in recent studies: The most robust research to date, a 2024 sibling-controlled analysis of 2.4 million children in Sweden, compared outcomes for siblings where the mother took acetaminophen in one pregnancy but not the other. This approach controlled for shared genetic and environmental factors. The study found no difference in the rate of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability between the exposed and unexposed siblings.
Older studies had limitations: Earlier observational studies suggested an association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and neurodevelopmental issues. However, these studies could not definitively rule out confounding factors. For example, the underlying health issues that caused a woman to take acetaminophen (like fever, migraines, or infection) or a mother's genetic predispositions could also independently increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Major health organizations confirm safety: Based on a review of the available evidence, groups like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) continue to recommend acetaminophen for treating pain and fever in pregnancy.
Risks of untreated fever: Medical experts emphasize that the dangers of untreated fever and pain during pregnancy are more significant than the theoretical risks linked to acetaminophen. Untreated fever, especially in the first trimester, is associated with a higher risk of birth defects and preterm birth.
Last Tylenol scare was 1982, and I think the way that the company handled that one is taught in Business Schools as a case study in how to properly handle a product safety concern. How will Tylenol handle this one?
The "science" calls bullshit
The dramatic increase in diagnosed autism may be due, in part, to substances like Tylenol. I await the research findings.
However, the increase is, in possibly in large part, due to poor diagnostic skills and social pressure on mental health professionals to find a "reason" for children's behavior outside of poor socialization and parenting.
I say this as a retired psychologist with 35 years experience.
Given the huge increase in autism rates, if acetaminophen was the cause it would be abundantly obvious in the data.
“I use to chew aspirin.”
Well, in MY day, we didn’t have any aspirin. We had to chew broken glass and we liked it!
s'opihjerdt said... There is more autism because today autism has a different definition...
CDC should do a study examining a few thousand random Gen X and Boomers using current autism criteria to see if it's actually more common among Millennials and Zoomers. I predict it will confirm conventional wisdom about the last two generations.
I haven't been able to take ibuprofen or aspirin for the past week because my knee replacement is tomorrow - and I'm mighty glad that requirement exists. My knees hurt like sons of guns, especially when I'm trying to sleep, because acetaminophen doesn't do the job, but better a week of bad sleep than blood that won't clot in timely fashion. (I was interested to learn that post-surgery, I'll be on prescription-strength aspirin for a *month* for the very reason that I can't have it now.)
While pregnant, I didn't drink alcohol at all, not because I believed it was absolutely going to cause all the fetal issues that the signs in bar restrooms warn of if I had an occasional drink, but because caution was my watchword. I also didn't eat soft cheese or raw shellfish, and I asked my husband to deal with the litter box. Pregnancy is a hugely complicated process and the baby-factory's actions may have consequences. If there's a link between acetaminophen and autism, I am POSITIVE that every woman who hopes to have children will be glad to know so she can avoid it.
I am super disappointed in JFK Jr. The consumption of hundreds upon hundreds of pounds of sugar and ultra processed food year after year after year are much more likely culprits then taking a few milligrams of a substance. We're talking parts per million versus percentages just like the carbon dioxide argument you people make about global warming all the time.
Front. Cell. Neurosci., 05 August 2025
Sec. Cellular Neuropathology
Volume 19 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2025.1623576
Effect of maternal diet on gut bacteria and autism spectrum disorder in offspring
Zilin Chen&#x;Zilin Chen1†Xu Wang&#x;Xu Wang2†Yuchen HuYuchen Hu1Si ZhangSi Zhang1Fei Han*Fei Han1*
1Department of Pediatrics, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
2State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests in early childhood, with its specific causes and pathogenesis remaining incompletely understood. The gut bacteria plays a pivotal role in host health and neurodevelopment. Maternal eating disorders may disrupt maternal gut bacteria and subsequently influence fetal and neonatal gut bacteria through the gut-placental axis and breastfeeding. This disruption can ultimately impact the microbial-gut-brain axis, the immune system, neurotransmitter dysregulation, and metabolite abnormalities, thereby increasing the risk of ASD in offspring. This paper reviews the adverse effects of bad maternal dietary habits, including high-sugar, high-salt, high-fat diets, alcohol consumption, dietary fiber deficiency, and the intake of ultra-processed foods, on the gut bacteria. It also explores the mechanisms by which gut microbiota disorder may induce ASD through the immune system, neurotransmitters, and metabolites. Additionally, the article proposes potential strategies to prevent ASD by adjusting dietary structures and enhancing gut bacteria health
I never had a problem with aspirin, so the incentive to use Tylenol was never stronger than curiosity. As a pain reliever, Tylenol proved to be more or less indistinguishable to me from common aspirin; consequently, I stopped buying it decades ago. Not out of any suspicion of hidden side effects, just by a cost/benefit comparison.
TV ads for Tylenol usually pitched a lack of stomach upset associated with aspirin as its chief advantage over that public-domain analgesic. What that suggests to me is a target market consisting of people predisposed to overuse drugs. Fortunately, that has never been one of my failings, but not from wisdom or insight; it simply isn't me. I drink, but never alone. I may have two at a sitting, but rarely a third. ( I say rarely because I can't say never. My memory isn't that keen.) I'll even smoke tobacco from time to time, but I can honestly say I haven't smoked in over a year. I did not choose my abstemious lifestyle; it chose me.
I've never suffered from chronic pain or discomfort, and for that blessing I am truly thankful. However, I have numerous friends with degrees of chronic pain, in one case, lifelong pain. I don't know what to say to them when they ask how I've remained so healthy and unencumbered, other than take the minimum medication required and avoid health and dietary fads. Think like a lord; eat like a peasant. Passing discomforts are part of living. Endure them.
"Howard said...
Given the huge increase in autism rates, if acetaminophen was the cause it would be abundantly obvious in the data."
An interesting study would be if they looked at women who had a pre-existing allergy to Tylenol so there was a very high-likelihood to know they definitely took no Tylenol during pregnancy and compare rates of Autism in their children to the population at large. While I suspect almost all women are more careful during pregnancy there could be a large portion of women who are used to grabbing a "Pain relief medicine" bottle, which might make self-reported abstention from Tylenol specifically unreliable.
Stupid people love the "pill" solution. It's easy to swallow
Remember when thimerosal called autism? Good times
"We're talking parts per million versus percentages just like the carbon dioxide argument you people make about global warming all the time."
While I think changes in diet have to be looked at given the huge increase in diagnosis rates as a counterpoint I will say that with Carbon Dioxide we are talking about its physical properties whereas with Tylenol it would be its chemical properties. Generally a much smaller amount of a substance is needed for its chemical properties to have a significant effect compared to its physical properties having a significant effect.
Holy crap that's a poorly worded article, trying to work "Trump" into as many paragraphs as possible whether it fits or not. Granted Old Timey journalism is dead. Likewise the "inverted pyramid" style where the most salient and important facts are presented first followed by the second most important, etc. Nope. We have an article so larded up with AI bullshit that they can't even cite the actual study in the first ten 'grafs.
I just want to point out they DO provide an alternative safe painkiller early in the text, totally contradicting every democrat talking point I've heard so far about pregnant women (oh so NOW they are "women"?) fearful of having no pain meds during pregnancy.
But I will wait for a well written article or Jeff Childers' summary of one to form any serious thoughts other than we are getting really close to the "Trump could cure cancer..." meme that always ends with regressive progressives bitching about true progress for humanity and medicine.
Good idea, Vault Dweller. Perhaps if the announcement was to conduct actual science to confirm rather than conclude with no definitive evidence, people might not think Bobby Jr is a crystal healer
Given the huge increase in autism rates, if acetaminophen was the cause it would be abundantly obvious in the data.
Would it? I don't think anyone disputes that one strong component in the explosion in autism rate is the diagnostic criteria and the recognition of, for instance, different presentation in girls. (And the commenter up-thread who mentioned pressure on doctors to find something wrong so parents wouldn't have to change their snowplowing, helicoptering ways is probably on to something, along with the fact that a diagnosed "something wrong" gets you stuff.)
But I'm given to understand that rates of profound autism, the kind that's been recognized for well over a century, have also gone way up. So it's not only diagnostic changes. By your logic, something ought to be "abundantly obvious in the data." Why isn't anything?
Could it be that ASD is complex and multifactorial? And that a search for single factor is going to be confounded because there's no single factor? But my God, if we could bring the rate back down even into the 1:100 range with This One Weird Trick, wouldn't it be great? That would be cutting the incidence by two-thirds.
Take SIDS - admonishing parents not to put babies to sleep on their stomachs, even though a whole lot of babies sleep better that way, cut SIDS incidence by 50-60%. But it didn't eliminate SIDS and is far from the only factor - smoking during pregnancy and in the home, brain anormales that might or might not have any link to maternal smoking, oxygen deprivation during birth, soft bedding, low birth weight, prematurity, mother under 20yo, multiple birth...
Althouse: Now, absolutely no one should take acetaminophen during pregnancy. Who would?
A pregnant woman with a fever in her first trimester.
First the conclusion and then the "science".
Great points, Jamie. Unfortunately, that's not what was announced.
Studying the effects of gut bacteria health on overall health is in it's infancy.
I love when they declare such all-encompassing groups as "Scientists" or "Experts" have reached a consensus. Who are these 'scientists' that reacted with dismay? Are there 5 of them? 35 of them? 4,035 of them?
Just what makes the science true? Consensus or actual data?
I would say it's good that this administration is trying to zero in on what is causing so many autistic kids. Every one of you probably knows a family with an autistic child these days. I've seen it in my own family, friends families. It is too many and there have to be reasons. We are clearly poisoning our kids- unknowingly.
It's time we looked past journalistic claims of 'scientists' being in dismay' and look at actual parents in dismay.
I think I hate our journalists.
"Those aren't scientists. A scientist would look at the research."
To be fair, the next sentence is: "They pointed to a large body of evidence refuting a link between paracetamol and autism, including a major Swedish study published last year which looked at 2.48 million births and found no link."
The answer I got from AI is a little different, so... do your own checking of the research.
"I am super disappointed in JFK Jr."
Kind of unfair...
For those of you who kept your Kenvue stock from the J&J spinout, my condolences.
Studying the effects of gut bacteria health on overall health is in it's infancy.
And is SUCH an interesting topic - the brain-gut connection ought to be a potential focus of every research topic having to do with neural development or neural disease/dysfunction. I was stunned to learn, when my MIL was suffering intractable stomach problems with no apparent cause except that she operates on ***EMERGENCY!!*** all the time, that the gut has so many neurons that it's being considered a kind of "second brain."
I'm wondering whether a Tylenol link, if indeed there is one, is low-hanging fruit, as in my SIDS example: lots easier to give pregnant women a single, easy prohibition and an alternative than to get a smoking woman to quit. So in this case, lots easier to say "no acetaminophen during pregnancy" than to say "cut out sugar and don't eat processed foods."
Everything the Trump Administration does is controversialized by the reporting.
typingtalker said...
Next: Should a pregnant women ride in a car and if so should she use a seat belt?
I have home movies of me as a newborn leaving the hospital. The nurse hands me to my mother who's in the front seat of a Rambler. No seat belt, no car seat. Good times.
As several commenters have pointed out, acetaminophen and autism have been studied before, and no connection was seen. RFKJr in the past kept pushing the aluminum theory despite a raft of studies showing no connection, and he kept pushing it even after the aluminum compound was removed and a connection became physically impossible. Hence the skepticism today.
"Just wait until they get around to statins."
I was *supposed* to be placed on statins. But, due to a mix up at the doctor's office I never got the call. When I went back to the doctor's office a year later by bloodwork was perfect. If I would have taken the damn drugs, I might be on them for the rest of my life because they would have appeared to have "worked."
Iman said...
“I use to chew aspirin.”
"Well, in MY day, we didn’t have any aspirin. We had to chew broken glass and we liked it!"
Back in my day grandma would go out back to the family willow tree and scrape of some bark and make tea. While grampa held us down grandma would pour it down our throats.
Our parents looked on lovingly.
As several commenters have pointed out, acetaminophen and autism have been studied before, and no connection was seen.
Not true - a study done by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and just published in August concluded that exposure to acetaminophen in utero may result in an increased development of neurodevelopmental disorders.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy-may-increase-childrens-autism-and-adhd-risk/
"But I'm given to understand that rates of profound autism, the kind that's been recognized for well over a century, have also gone way up."
Children who used to get diagnosed as developmentally delayed (fka mentally retarded) now get diagnosed as autistic. There are charts on the Internet showing how the one diagnosis has fallen off while the other has risen.
I don't see why women with an autistic child should, or would, feel guilty for taking acetaminophen during pregnancy (if a link exists). Angry, yes.
Likewise the "inverted pyramid" style where the most salient and important facts are presented first followed by the second most important, etc. Nope. We have an article so larded up with AI bullshit that they can't even cite the actual study in the first ten 'grafs.
Gotta keep you scrolling down to get to the salient parts - that way, you get fed more ads!
(in "Taking Tylenol in pregnancy linked to autism, Trump to claim/The president promises ‘one of the biggest medical announcements in US history’, claiming a discovery as to why the disorder developed and treatment"
I predict lefty women will start having Tylenol Baby Showers.
There are other factors of bad human decision making like saving face or politics, but bad decisions come from the numbers game combined with horrible attitudes about medical certainty. People, doctors especially hate making decisions based on imperfect information. It can lead to bad conclusions, either too aggressive when data seems robust of too cautious when they seem less so. Improvements would occur if doctors were trained to think better in terms of cost-benefit, risk-reward…obvious to anyone with some economics who is exposed to medicine…
Lol. Citing AI for your medical research
is a bit like undergrads citing Wikipedia
to cover new ground in their field...
You're a hoot, professor ann! lol
Children who used to get diagnosed as developmentally delayed (fka mentally retarded) now get diagnosed as autistic. There are charts on the Internet showing how the one diagnosis has fallen off while the other has risen.
I can see that, and that diagnostic change would also explain part of the explosion.
But - autism characterized by, for instance, rocking, banging the head into walls, other repetitive and sometimes harmful movements - is that something that used to be diagnosed as "mental retardation"? I know in my half-century since I became aware of autism as a condition, a child exhibiting those kinds of behaviors was considered autistic, not developmentally delayed.
People, doctors especially hate making decisions based on imperfect information.
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Not true.
In my opinion and from what I've observed in practice, most doctors are not exactly conservative or risk-averse. They will study, chart and diagnose, then prescribe a course of action. If that shows promise, it will be pursued, if not, they try something else.
Most scientists understand there are no guarantees, no certainties and things are constantly changing. They're not mathematicians. Science is all about experimenting, learning from mistakes, and successes.
Don't you follow cancer research or understand how childhood cancers have been conquered? An awful lot of early patients were ... experimented on. Their deaths, though, helped save lives in the end, and a cure for childhood leukemia -- if found early enough -- was accomplished.
That's how science works, ladies.
(And ann... nobody but you and meade think RFK is healthy or sexxy. That's unfair to judge a man by his genes and looks.)
"...What's dismaying is the burden of guilt to be laid on women who have already used acetaminophen during pregnancy...."
Guilt is an emotion one feels when they do something they knew they shouldn't have, at the time, and are left with a disastrous result, or doubts about what caused it. If such a connection has been established, then no woman should feel guilt, they should just accept progress and change accordingly.
But where has the connection been established? Why has an announcement been made if there isn't scientific evidence to back it up? Or is that just the 'helpful context' the spin is trying to have us believe? I hope the administration hasn't gotten ahead of itself.
Has autism really become such a prevalent problem? Interesting that so little attention is given to a condition that represents a permanent lifelong behavioral problem that affects entire families, and yet is so under-studied that it's not even obvious if the problem has gotten so much bigger, or is just an artifact of 'different measurement techniques and modern ways of evaluating it.' Odd, science being so incurious about getting to the bottom of such a thing, as if unwilling to advance understanding.
We do have to be careful of the precautionary principle, of course. But considering that pain (that would respond to Tylenol) during pregnancy long predates the availability of chemical pain relief, and pregnant women have sucked it up for that limited period for as long as there have been pregnant women, this would seem to me to be a case where we don't have to worry overmuch.
There’s always pushback from the ‘science’ community when such statements are made. It’s because they believe it questions their credibility - the scientists and doctors must be right. Are they really scientists if they take a ‘thou shall not not question’ stance?
Everything the Trump Administration does is controversialized by the reporting.
This is 100% true. Acknowledging an area of study and urging caution is not the same thing as creeping anti-science fascism, no matter how flowery your language or florid your choice of adjective. It would be nice if the leftists did not have such kneejerk autonomic reactions to Trump, but they do. And they write like they think: confusedly.
Here's another one, Ibuprofen is an endocrine disrupter. No child, born or unborn, should be exposed to it.
Remember the old lefty "If it saves one child" bullshit? Yeah me too. Total bullshit. And from the same crowd that screamed "You should have aborted him" at Sarah Palin because she had a DS baby. Stay classy Libs!
My sister, a very senior school psychologist, points to parental age as an obvious factor. I seem to recall a study some years back specifying older paternal age as a possible factor. And of course we all have heard the thing about men and women who are both STEM-oriented having an easier time finding one another and making babies (though that one makes slightly less sense to me, since STEM-oriented women must always have existed even if they couldn't readily put their interest to use in a career setting, and one might expect them to have gone for those secretarial jobs in, say, research facilities versus, say, business offices - so they'd still have been present in the dating pool of the almost-autist men).
(The STEM thing - again, there's a pretty marked difference between the "Young Sheldon" form of autism [I know, they specifically said he wasn't autistic, but isn't that sort of character exactly what we're given to picture when we think of "autism spectrum"?] and profound, have-to-strap-child-into-helmet, nonverbal autism. I have never heard whether profound autism is more common when parents are both engineers.)
Autism is primarily "caused" by changes in diagnostic criteria not the underlying condition. The most important biological cause of the increasing prevalence of autism is parental age. f you don't want to take Acetominophen, that's fine (it's bad for your liver anyway), but it's not important as a cause of autism. Ibuprofen is probably worse if you are pregnant.
Encouraging women to suffer during pregnancy by citing dubious worries about Tylenol will mostly make individuals miserable and at a societal level, hinder pronatalist efforts.
The left will now pop Tylenol like tic tacs and post videos about it.
Popping Tylenol like Tic Tacs will cause liver damage.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/over-the-counter-medications/acetaminophen
Enigma. Yes it will, but TDS is more powerful in some than common sense.
Encouraging women to suffer during pregnancy by citing dubious worries about Tylenol will mostly make individuals miserable and at a societal level, hinder pronatalist efforts.
Oh honey. Pain in pregnancy that could be effectively treated by Tylenol is among the least of "suffering" during pregnancy for most women. And don't get me started on the "fourth trimester" when your now-born baby still believes she's in the womb and expects you to hop to it whenever she is hungry, chilly, hot, bored, frustrated, wet, poopy, feeling any internal discomfort...
We all gave up thalidomide and pretty much everything else you can take to relieve nausea except fricking ginger chews - and morning sickness is absolutely debilitating for some women. I would be surprised to learn that discouragement of acetaminophen would have any measurable effect on "pronatalism."
Every older person is at risk for dementia after a serious fall and so people should be aware of the difference in the action of different kinds of painkillers taken by older people. Possibly one type might be better for older people than another. Acetaminophen numbs nerves; ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Numbing nerves will affect your brain adversely and since older people's brains are at risk after a fall perhaps they should avoid nerve- and brain-numbing Painkillers that work by reducing inflammation might be better for older people because they don't affect the brain as much. Besides older people usually have other issues such as arthritis and back pains that are helped by reducing inflammation. But then, these anti-inflammatory painkillers can cause cirrhosis. Cirrhosis or dementia - which is worse?
I know that those who associate falls and dementia don't think of nerve-numbing painkillers as one of the causes of that dementia. Maybe it isn't such a cause in younger people. But in my experiences with the effects of cancer and associated surgeries I found I had to put in a major effort to recover from nerve-numbing painkillers. Even acetaminophen had a huge impact on my thinking, and yet no one ever suggested for one single moment that it would have such an effect. Of course, the acetaminophen was coming after other nerve-numbing painkillers so perhaps it was just carrying on effects. I don't know. But stopping it gave immediate relief.
So I now think that perhaps older people after major operations and pain-recovery periods should have pain-killer-recovery sessions as if they were recovering addicts. I am pretty sure dementia would be reduced. I think perhaps it is nerve-numbing painkillers, not the fall, that is the real cause of the onset of dementia in older people after falls. Maybe Joe Biden would have been better off without his anxiously prescribing physicians.
Hey, we found a really easy, cost-free way to reduce the chance of autism in your children, something that's epidemic right now.
Fascist! We will not comply with your Nazi ways! Our kids would rather be autistic.
The whole point of an FDA or Health Dept. is to have experts we can trust. Can we f*^! have that?
If we can't have it with either party, scrap them both and let Darwin do his thing.
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