- The White House promises to revolutionize health in the United States.
- Trump insists that Tylenol’s taking is not good.
- Paracetamol cited among the safest analgesics during pregnancy.
Washington: US President Donald Trump vehemently insisted that pregnant people should “finish” and avoid tylenol for an unproven link with autism, and urged major changes to standard vaccines administered to babies.
The announcement of the Republican leader, competing with radical but not founded advice, came while the White House promised to revolutionize health in the United States, and as experts in medicine and science, a great concern concerning the initiatives of the administration which seem determined to unravel decades of medical consensus.
Medical groups, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have long quoted paracetamol – the main ingredient of Tylenol – as among the safe and most sure analgesics to take during pregnancy.
But Trump, who hammered his message in increasingly emphatic terms, insisted that “taking Tylenol is not good” and “fighting like hell so as not to take it”.
He said that pregnant people should “harden” and that only an “extremely high fever” would justify taking over -the -counter medicine.
This is not true: fever and pain can constitute serious threats both for the mother and the development fetus.
Arthur Caplan, the chief of the Nyu medical ethics division, described Trump’s display as “dangerous”, “non -scientific” and “full of disinformation”.
“I fear that pregnant women do not feel guilty if they were taking Tylenol. They will feel that they dropped their babies. They will feel that they were contrary to ethics in terms of trying to treat fever. It is simply not fair, and it is nothing that someone should feel,” Caplan told AFP.
Debate
The Food and Drug Administration was much more silent than Trump on the subject, affirming in a letter to the doctors that “a causal relationship has not been established” and that the scientific debate was underway.
A review of the literature published last month concluded that there were reasons to believe that a possible link between exposure to Tylenol and autism existed – but many other studies have found an opposite result.
The researchers behind the August report warned that more studies are necessary and that pregnant people should not stop taking medication without consulting their doctors.
David Mandell, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told AFP that research suggests that the possible risks posed by taking Tylenol while pregnancy seems to “be lower than the risk of having an uncontrolled infection during pregnancy”.
Anti-Vax “threat” for children
The identification of the root of autism – a complex condition linked to the development of the brain which, according to many experts, occurs for mainly genetic reasons – was a cause of pets of the head of the health of Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy for decades has spread the demystified assertions that vaccines cause autism.
On Monday, he praised the drug Leucovorin, a form of vitamin B first used to alleviate the side effects of chemotherapy, such as “exciting therapy” which could help children suffering from disorder whose symptoms vary considerably through a spectrum.
The FDA said on Monday that it approved the drug tablet form to help a subset of children who had a “Foarbral Food deficiency”.
Vaccines were also on the offbeat of Trump’s conference.
He ardently repeated discussion points on anti-Vax movements such as higher figures from the administration, including Kennedy, hosted his head.
He sowed doubt about standard vaccines, including MMR shot – which covers measles, mumps and rubella – and would imply that it would end the common use of aluminum in vaccines, whose security has been widely studied.
And the president pushed to a major change in the calendar of routine vaccines given to infants, insisting without proof that there is “no reason” to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B. incurable and very contagious B.
This declaration is in direct contradiction of a large medical consensus formed over the decades. Many experts say that the best way to prevent maternal transmission of the disease, which can cause liver damage and cancer, is to vaccinate babies on the first day of life.
Trump’s push occurs days after an influentially sorted -sided advisory panel by Kennedy was not advised to delay the first dose of a month’s hepatitis B vaccine.
They judged that more discussions were necessary – offering temporary relief to many public health experts who said that the postponement of this shot could have disastrous results.
“The spacing or delay of vaccines means that children will not have immunity against these diseases at times when they are most at risk,” said Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday.
“Any effort to distort its sound, a strong science is a threat to children’s health.”
