“The drug freely crosses the placental barrier, ‘reaching levels in fetal circulation similar to maternal circulation within less than an hour of maternal ingestion.’”
Yikes! But I can still drink alcohol and smoke while pregnant, right? ;)
“I quit drinking and smoking for four whole months when I was pregnant with you!” ~ Roseanne
I only use aspirin, a natural compound.
Never trusted acetaminopen or ibuprofen, both synthetic.
Tylenol...bad...especially if used regularly...from what I have read
Tylenol was my guess 25 years ago
The increasing prevalence of autism in new births is certainly mysterious and perplexing.
The thing is, there has never been a shortage of people, both men and women ready to advise pregnant women what they should or should not eat, should or should not take for pain relief.
It’s my understanding that carrying and delivering a child can be a very painful experience. The young Moms need something, w/o someone harassing them. What’s an expectant Mom to do? Maybe settle on some helpful solution and keep it to yourself, plus husband and/or doctor. Don’t blab on Facebook, looking for praise.
Got a bottle of Tylenol?
Look at all the warnings, which were forced on Johnson & Johnson after paying bazillions in court ordered fines.
No longer advertising “safe and effective,” nor “the pain reliever doctors recommend most.”
Drink alcohol? Throw away the Tylenol. Even among tea-totalers, Tylenol is rough on livers.
There are many brands of Acetaminophen, including generic, not just Tylenol, so I am curious as to why Tylenol is singled out.
At least part of the reason we see more cases of autism is because because the definition of what qualifies as autism is broader.
There might be other evidence against acetamenophen, but condemning anything known to be “the world’s most popular” on the basis of high statistical correllation seems preposterous.
Six long sentences of scary statistics before the author gets to the actual punch-line.
“acetaminophen”
I believe it was the preferred painkiller of Britain’s NHS long before aspirin was shoved aside in the USA.
Autism should have showed up strongly in Britain long before it showed up strongly in the USA.
Tylenol can also very effectively destroy the liver, especially when mixed with alcohol
Some woman in a town we lived in did that very thing and needed a liver transplant. And she was young. I don’t remember how that resolved and if she survived.
Those that think, or want to say, there is no link between autism and ANY pharmaceuticals of any kind, keep choosing to say that the only thing that has changed is that the diagnosis for autism and ADHD is granted much more often than in the past - that it merely often went undiagnosed in the past. That is the unified contesting theory that crops up against any study or group of studies suggested a drug link.
When my son was young, plenty of people – other parents, social workers and medical professionals – seemed to take personal issue with David’s diagnosis. For all sorts of reasons, they didn’t want to believe it.
The simplest retort, I discovered, was to let them spend a couple of minutes with him.
My son was a screamer. He could hit a note of ear-piercing intensity and hold it indefinitely, barely breaking for breath – and no amount of pleading, cuddling or bribing could stop him.
Members of the public have threatened me with violence if I failed to make him stop – or even threatened to hit David. Complete strangers, hearing one of his meltdowns, have banged on our front door and tried to intervene. On one occasion, we were ordered out of the waiting room at Bristol Children’s Hospital and told that, if we wanted to see a doctor, we’d have to wait in the car park because David’s screaming was so unbearably intense.
In the UK, the first cases began to be noticed in the 1950s, when they were classified under ‘childhood schizophrenia’. The first British doctor to use the term ‘autism’ was Mildred Creak, a psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street hospital, in 1963.
In other words, autism was unknown in Britain before the Beatles era.
WIKI
In 1963, paracetamol was added to the British Pharmacopoeia, and has gained popularity since then as an analgesic agent with few side-effects and little interaction with other pharmaceutical agents.
Concerns about paracetamol’s safety delayed its widespread acceptance until the 1970s, but in the 1980s paracetamol sales exceeded those of aspirin in many countries, including the United Kingdom.
In June 2009, an FDA advisory committee recommended that new restrictions be placed on paracetamol use in the United States to help protect people from the potential toxic effects. The maximum single adult dosage would be decreased from 1000 mg to 650 mg
In January 2011, the FDA asked manufacturers of prescription combination products containing paracetamol to limit its amount to no more than 325 mg per tablet or capsule
Pain after a dental surgery provides a reliable model for the action of analgesics on other kinds of acute pain. For the relief of such pain, paracetamol is inferior to ibuprofen. Full therapeutic doses of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ibuprofen, naproxen, or diclofenac are clearly more efficacious than the paracetamol/codeine combination which is frequently prescribed for dental pain. The combinations of paracetamol and NSAIDs ibuprofen or diclofenac are promising, possibly offering better pain control than either paracetamol or the NSAID alone. Additionally, the paracetamol/ibuprofen combination may be superior to paracetamol/codeine and ibuprofen/codeine combinations
Paracetamol, in a small-scale meta-analysis was also associated with a 20–30% increase in autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and conduct disorder, with the association being lower in a meta-analysis where a larger demographic was used
Paracetamol is extremely toxic to cats, which lack the necessary UGT1A6 enzyme to detoxify it. Initial symptoms include vomiting, salivation, and discoloration of the tongue and gums. Unlike an overdose in humans, liver damage is rarely the cause of death; instead, methemoglobin formation and the production of Heinz bodies in red blood cells inhibit oxygen transport by the blood, causing asphyxiation (methemoglobinemia and hemolytic anemia).
Paracetamol is lethal to snakes and has been suggested as a chemical control program for the invasive brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) in Guam. Doses of 80 mg are inserted into dead mice that are scattered by helicopter as lethal bait to be consumed by the snakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol
On September 29, 1982, a “Tylenol scare” began when the first of seven individuals died in the Chicago metropolitan area after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol that had been deliberately contaminated with cyanide. Within a week, the company pulled 31 million bottles of tablets back from retailers, making it one of the first major product recalls in American history.
Before the poisonings, Tylenol brands held around 35% of the US market for acetaminophen and in the immediate aftermath, fell to 8%. Within a year sales had rebounded to the prior levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol_(brand)
There would have been a drop in autism for children born around then for much of a year if acetaminophen was the cause of autism.
Thanks to all posters. Informative thread. Health / life BUMP!
Holy chit!!!
When I was pregnant with my four children, the rule was to prescribe as little as possible to pregnant women, including otc’s. Tylenol is not and never was a drug to be taken for granted. Not to sound like a broken record, but I believe it should be a prescription drug.