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Posted on 09/22/2025 3:25:55 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Trump and top health officials Monday said pregnant women should not take acetaminophen for pain relief due to a potential link to autism.
Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, one of the most widely used medications in the world.
“Taking Tylenol is not good,” Trump said during a White House announcement.
Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin updating the label on acetaminophen and will begin notifying physicians that Tylenol “can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.”
“All pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use of this medication while pregnant. So ideally, you don’t take it at all, but if you have to, you can’t tough it out … probably, you’re going to end up doing it,” Trump said.
Tylenol has been one of the only over-the-counter pain medications for pregnant women that is considered safe. Other options like ibuprofen or aspirin can increase risks of birth defects.
Experts say there are multiple causes of autism, and the increase in diagnoses is more likely due to improved detection.
“Despite recent unfounded claims, there’s no clear evidence linking prudent use to issues with fetal development,” it added.
Major medical societies, including the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM), advise recommend that pregnant women consult with health providers before taking acetaminophen.
“At this time, the weight of scientific evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy causes an increased risk for autism or ADHD is simply inconclusive,” SMFM President Sindhu Srinivas said.
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RFK, Jr., started the ball rolling by claiming that he'd find the cause of autism by September. No reason was given why it would be found by then, or on any other timetable, for that matter. Why September instead of July?
Meanwhile he foists the causal vs. correlation fallacy that because acetaminophen was introduced in the 1955, somehow it was to blame for autism becoming more widely diagnosed in the 50s. This ignores the fact that the first diagnosis of autism was in 1943, and it took years before the condition was widely recognized.
There is no scientific link, at least none that Kennedy presents. He could have just as easily linked autism to the advent of television or of rock and roll.
As a kidney donor, I use acetaminophen occasionally because it is the only over-the-counter painkiller deemed safe by nephrologists. I have a fairly high pain tolerance so I use it no more than once every three or four months. But for mothers-to-be whose pregnancy pain can be quite difficult, for Kennedy to use the bully pulpit of the federal bureaucracy to trash their one source of easily accessible relief is unconscionable.
Kennedy is a colorful character with the salesmanship and the lack of scientific knowledge that absolutely permeates social media today. Cane syrup = bad, natural food colors = bad, etc., etc.
If he'd just kept focused on his War on Red Dye #2, he couldn't do too much damage. He is a loose cannon and it's a shame President Trump is uncritically adopting his line.
You’re here to bash Trump
Why?
Senator Cassidy (“R”- Louisiana) sabotaged internist (still practicing) Dave Weldon MD from being appointed head of the CDC. Unfortunately, I know MAHA was somewhat thwarted from then on. (Cassidy was also behind the choosing of Susan Monarez, who has since been fired and is doing everything possible to sabotage MAHA further.)
Dave Weldon is a highly competent physician and would have been very measured and common sense about things.
I am sure that there is some evidence to back up the claim.
Wouldn’t you LEAD with thee evidence???? So far the claim is fact-free.
I hate to have to commend you to read my comment again, but my complaint was very specific.
If this was the Biden administration the title of the article would be “FDA Caution Pregnant Women About Taking Tylenol”. I hate the MSM.
A lot of people tell me Tylenol doesn’t work for them.
You must have watched a different press conference than I did.
Maybe because “follow the science” only extends to the point where it goes against Big Pharma’s bottom line?
I didn't watch all of it.
Sometimes it seems like both sides don’t want proof. And I don’t mean Dem/Rep.
Sometimes it seems like both sides don’t want proof. And I don’t mean Dem/Rep.
Years and years of dueling papers on safety.
As we’ve learned to ask the hard way...
Who the heck do you believe?
Recent experience suggests not Big Med or Big Pharma.
RFK Jr. and the doctors at the press conference cited several studies.
Why are you here telling lies?
A lot of people take Tylenol like tic-tacs. Too much will destroy your liver-especially if you are a drinker.
All medications have side effects.
That’s quite different from making a health warning about it.
Again, that’s a different observation. Nothing to do with an autism scare.
They seem to become autistic in a single day, a week or two AFTER A ROUND OF SHOTS
“We’re looking at Tylenol”
Horse hockey. The evidence of massive increases in children developing autism is indisputable. In just a few years, the cases have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31. It is quite likely that fetal development is strongly affected by mothers taking Tylenol.
Since you’re not likely to get pregnant anytime soon, butt out.
Are you pregnant?
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