On Monday, US President Donald Trump urged a pregnant woman to “claim” and avoid Tylenol and quoted an unproven connection with autism, while inviting for significant changes in standard vaccines administered to children.
What Trump said about using Tylenol?
Trump insisted that “taking Tylenol is not good” and “fighting like hell not to take it”. He said that pregnant people should “claim” it and that only “extremely high fever” would justify the use of an over -the -counter medicine.
“There’s a reputation – and I don’t know if it’s so or not – that Cuba, they don’t have Tylenol because they don’t have the money for Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism,” Trump said in the White House, and added, “Amish as an example. They have basically no autism,”
Notes of the Republican leader – full of large and unverified claims – come when the White House introduces a sweeping overhaul of the American medical system. Trump on Sunday evening teased Monday’s announcement as big and told reporters, “I think we found an answer to autism.”
Meanwhile, FDA chief Marta Makara told reporters on Monday, said Trump’s administration asked drug companies to be prepared to increase leukovorin production as a treatment of some autism patients.
What do experts say?
Experts argue that an increase in cases is mainly due to a new definition of a failure, which now includes slight cases of “spectrum” and better diagnosis. It is said that there is no single cause of the disorder and say that rhetoric seems to ignore and undermine decades of science into genetic and environmental factors that can play a role.
Medical groups, including the American University of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, have long quoted acetaminophene – the primary component in Tylenol – as among the safest painkillers that need to be taken during pregnancy.
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