- The White House promises to revolutionize health in the US.
- Trump insists that ‘taking Tylenol is not good.
- Paracetamol cited as among the safest analgesics during pregnancy.
Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, insisted vehemently that pregnant people should “resist” and avoid Tylenol about an unseeding link with autism, and urged important changes to standard vaccines managed to babies.
The announcement of the Republican leader, plagued by radical tips but without foundation, occurred when the White House has promised to revolutionize health in the United States, and when experts in medicine and science express a broad concern about administration initiatives that seem intentions to unravel decades of medical consensus.
Medical groups, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have long cited the paracetamol, the main ingredient in Tylenol, as among the safest analgesics to take during pregnancy.
But Trump, who hit his message in increasingly emphatic terms, insisted that “taking Tylenol is not good” and “fighting like hell not to take it.”
He said that pregnant people should “resist”, and that only an “extremely high fever” would justify taking free sales medicine.
That is not true: fever and pain can represent serious threats for both the mother and the development fetus.
Arthur Caplan, the head of the Nyu Medical Ethics Division, described the “dangerous”, “non -scientific” and “full of wrong information”.
“I worry that pregnant women feel guilty if they took Tylenol. They will feel that they will disappoint their babies. They will feel that they were not ethical in terms of trying to try the fever. That is not fair, and it is nothing that someone should feel,” Caplan told AFP.
Debate ongoing
The food and medication administration was much more silenced than Trump on the subject, saying in a letter to doctors that “a causal relationship has not been established” and that the scientific debate was ongoing.
A review of the literature published last month concluded that there were reasons to believe that there was a possible link between exposure to Tylenol and Autism, but many other studies have found an opposite result.
The researchers behind the August report warned that more study is needed and that pregnant people should not stop taking medications without consulting their doctors.
David Mandell, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told AFP that the research suggests the possible risks raised when taking Tylenol while pregnant seems to “be less than the risk of having an infection not controlled during pregnancy.”
‘Threat’ anti-vax for children
Identify the root of autism, a complex condition related to the development of the brain that many experts believe that it occurs for predominantly genetic reasons, has been a pet of Trump’s head of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy for decades has extended discredited statements that vaccines cause autism.
On Monday he promoted the leukovorine of the medication, a form of vitamin B first used to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy, as an “exciting therapy” that could help children with the disorder whose symptoms vary widely in a spectrum.
The FDA said Monday that it was approving the drug table form to help a subset of children who have “brain folate deficiency.”
The vaccines were also on the divagging agenda of the Trump Conference.
He ardently repeated the anti-vax movement conversation points as main figures in the administration, including Kennedy, nodded.
It sowed doubt about standard vaccines, including MMR, which covers measles, papers and rubella, and implied that the common use of aluminum would end in vaccines, whose safety has been widely studied.
And the president pressed for an important change in the routine vaccines hours granted to babies, insisting without evidence that “there is no reason” to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B. incurable and highly contagious B.
That statement is in direct contradiction of a broad medical consensus formed for 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 within the first day of life.
Trump’s impulse occurs days after an influential advisory panel selected by Kennedy stopped below to advise to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in a month.
They considered that more discussion was necessary, offering temporary relief to many public health experts who said that postponing that shot could have terrible results.
“Space or delay vaccines means that children will not have immunity against these diseases at the time they are more at risk,” Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said on Monday.
“Any effort to misrepresent sound, strong science raises a threat to children’s health.”
