- The White House lifts to revolutionize health in us.
- Trump insists on taking tylenol is not good.
- Paracetamol cited as among the safest painkillers during pregnancy.
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday hardly insisted that pregnant women “hard it out” and avoid Tylenol over an untested link to autism and called for major changes in the standard vaccines administered to babies.
The Republican leaders’ message, which is full of sweeping, yet not -built -in counseling, came when the White House has promised to revolutionize health in the United States, and as experts across medicine and voice broad concern about administration’s initiatives that seem to be intended to loosen decades of medical consensus.
Medical groups, including American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have long cited paracetamol – the primary ingredient in Tylenol – as among the safest painkillers to be taken during pregnancy.
But Trump, who hammered his message in increasingly emphatic twists, insisted that “taking tylenol is not good” and “fighting like hell so as not to take it.”
He said pregnant women should “hard it out” and that only an “extremely high fever” would justify taking the over-the-counter medicine.
That is not true: Fever and pain can pose serious threats to both the mother and the evolving fetus.
Arthur Caplan, the leader of Nyus Division of Medical Ethics, called Trump’s display “dangerous”, “unscientific” and “full of wrong information.”
“I’m worried that pregnant women will feel guilty if they took Tylenol. They will feel they are dropping their babies. They will feel that they were unethical about trying to treat fever. It’s just not fair, and it’s not something anyone should feel,” Caplan told AFP.
Debate ongoing
The Food and Drug Administration was far more muted than Trump on the subject and said in a letter to doctors that “a causal relationship has not been determined” and that the scientific debate is ongoing.
A literature review published last month concluded that there was reason to believe a possible connection between tylenol exposure and autism existed – but many other studies have found an opposite result.
Researchers behind the August Report warned that more examination is needed and that pregnant women should not stop taking medication without consulting their doctors.
David Mandell, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told AFP that research suggests the possible risks that pose by taking tylenol, while pregnant seems to be “to be lower than the risk of having an uncontrolled infection during pregnancy.”
Anti-Wax ‘threat’ against children
Identification of the root of autism – a complex state associated with brain development, which many experts believe occurs for predominantly genetic reasons – has been a pet cause of Trump’s health manager Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy has for decades spread debunked claims that vaccines are causing autism.
On Monday, he proclaimed the drug Leucovorin, a form of vitamin B that was first used to relieve chemotherapy side effects, as an “exciting therapy” that could help children with the disorder whose symptoms vary widely across a spectrum.
The FDA said on Monday that the approved medicine tablet form to help a subgroup of children who have “cerebral folate deficiency.”
Vaccines were also on the wandering agenda of Trump’s conference.
He repeated Ardenly Anti-Vax Movement Talking Points as top figures in the administration, including Kennedy, nodded.
He cast doubt on standard vaccines, including the MMR shot – which covers measles, mumps and red dogs – and suggested that he would end the common use of aluminum in vaccines whose safety has been widely investigated.
And the president was pushing for a major change in the routine vaccine plan given to infants, and insisted without evidence that there is “no reason” to vaccinate newborn against the incurable, very contagious hepatitis B.
This statement is in direct contradiction of broad medical consensus formed over 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 Push comes days after an influential advisory panel that was handpicked by Kennedy stopped shortly after advising on delaying the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine by one month.
They considered that more discussion was necessary – to offer temporary relief to many experts across public health who said the postponement of this shot could have serious results.
“Distance or delay of vaccines means that children do not have immunity to these diseases at times when they are most exposed to,” said Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Paediatrics, Monday.
“Any effort to incorrectly represent audio poses Strong Science a threat to children’s health.”
