Acetaminophen – known as Tylenol brand – was approved for the first time by the Food and Drug Administration in 1951. But Monday, the White House turned its back on this recommendation supported by science.
“Take Tylenol is uh, not good,” said Donald Trump at a press conference, linking Tylenol to take during pregnancy at increased autism rates, despite A lack of evidence.
The president seemed to suggest that all Americans no longer consume tylenol, although he stressed that pregnant children and women should be wary of consuming the popular pain relief medication.
“If you can’t finish it, if you can’t do it, that’s what you will have to do”, Trump saidThis implies that pregnant women are more likely to have autistic babies if they cannot manage the pain of pregnancy, or even if they feel pain or fever not linked to pregnancy during pregnancy.
“You will take a tylenol, but it will be sparingly. Maybe something that is very dangerous for women’s health, in other words a fever that is very, very dangerous and ideally a doctor’s decision because I think you shouldn’t take it.
“And you shouldn’t take it throughout pregnancy,” he said. “And you shouldn’t give the child a tylenol every time … He’s going and has a chance, you shouldn’t give this child a tylenol.”
More than any other over -the -counter medication, doctors recommended Tylenol for pregnant women due to its broad availability and its sought -after safety. It is considered the safest and analgesic fever in the market for pregnant women. For this reason, it is also one of the rare drugs against pain relievers that pregnant women are allowed to consume, and they consume it: Studies have discovered that two thirds of pregnant women in the United States consume tylenol during their pregnancies.
Dr Zeyan Liew, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Yale, underlines These recent doubts were thrown on Tylenol’s reputation because of what seems to be rates of upwards up across the country.
The fight against autism is the cornerstone of the public health policy of the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy is part of an increasing movement of anti-vacuum parents who refuse to provide their children with the same benefits of public health they have received in their youth, mainly in the fear of the theories of the in-depth conspiracy which, at a given time, linked autism to JAB.
The researcher who sparkled This myth with fraudulent paper has lost its medical license and finally canceled its opinion. Since then, dozens of studies have proven that there is no correlation between autism and vaccines, including a study which questioned more than 660,000 children in 11 years.
But confusion persists regarding the basic figures. A study published by the Texas Autism Society have found that a person in 31 would be an increase in autism – an increase in the figures published in 2006 which found approximately one in 110 children was diagnosed with autism at the age of 8.
But behind these figures is another story, according to Liew, which noted that the definition of autism has extended in this same period. Increased research, social deactivation and improvement in mental health screening has also contributed to swollen number.
But Trump has chosen to fear perfectly safe medicines. “Nothing bad can happen, this can only happen,” he insisted on Monday afternoon regarding the mass withdrawal from America from the analgesics.
In the same meal, Trump said that doctors had “pumped” babies – like a “horse” – with a “tank” of 80 -year -old vaccines.
He also indicated that instead of MMR combo vaccineChildren receive individual vaccines to separate measles, mumps and rubella separately, claiming that scientifically safe combination also contributed to autism rates. Later, the president said that children should not receive too many vaccines both on the basis that it is “too liquid”.
“Too many different things come in this baby to a large number”, Trump said. “The size of this thing when you look at it. It’s like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines.”
