Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- Why Does Tylenol Cause Chronic Illnesses Like Autism?
Exploring how suppressing acute but manageable symptoms can transform them into significantly more severe illnesses.
Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- Why Does Tylenol Cause Chronic Illnesses Like Autism?
Exploring how suppressing acute but manageable symptoms can transform them into significantly more severe illnesses.
Midwestern Doctor is full of it.
First, fever in pregnant women is dangerous to the fetus, particularly in the first trimester. A fever needs to be brought down, and both aspirin and Ibuprofin are not safe for the fetus. Instead Midwestern Doctor says “fevers are essential to health” without mentioning that they are dangerous to fetus.
Second, there is not “an extensive body of data connect[ing] using Tylenol during pregnancy or in infancy to the development of neurological injuries”. There are a few studies, but they are countered by even more studies that have not found a problem.
One of the major confounding factors is the fact that women who take Tylenol during pregnancy tend to do so because they are suffering from fever. So if there is harm to the fetus, was it the Tylenol or the fever? How do you control for that in observational studies?
The proper advice is “Pregnant women should take Tylenol to bring down fever, but use the minimum needed to do the job.”
Here’s a published study involving 2.5 million children that found that Tylenol presented no detectable danger:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
”… but use the minimum needed to do the job.”
Why? You JUST published the Jama article claiming Tylenol has no ill affect on pregnant women or children. You just repeated EXACTLY what Trump and RFK have said. They didn’t BAN Tylenol for pregnant women and children … they said; “use the minimum necessary” … because there is evidence that it causes damage to the fetus/children.
I never completely dismissed the possibility that Tylenol can cause cognitive development problems. The literature is mixed, and the possibility exists.
But if it does, there’s an excellent chance that it mainly — or entirely — occurs when Tylenol is used to excess. Almost all medicines are reasonably safe when used moderately, but become dangerous at high dosages.
It would be bad if women harmed their fetuses by not treating fevers during pregnancy, when all they had to do was use moderation.
Women take Tylenol for more than fever.
They do, but controlling fever during pregnancy is particularly important.
Do you suppose Peggy Lee was pregnant? She certainly did control “Fever”:
https://youtu.be/JBANWpzsHts?si=fBoVIlt8g_9H93dj
Nobody used Tylenol for 99.999% of human evolutionary time but now its important to keep fever down.
Ok.
In 1900, the odds that a new born baby survived into adulthood was about 75%. Today the odds are 99%.
Much of that has to do with improved health care. I doubt too many yearn for the good old days when infant death was common.
“Taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with elevated risks for autism, ADHD”
A Johns Hopkins study analyzing umbilical cord blood samples found that newborns with the highest exposure to acetaminophen were about three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder in childhood.
The study you mentioned is highly suspect because of missing data and spin.
Anybody who thinks acetaminophen isn’t suspect has their head up their ass.
Isn’t it time for your 15th COVID booster?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2753512
32.8% were neurotypical? Given that about 83% of children in the population at large are classified as neutrotypical, I have no idea what to make of that. This needs explaining.
In short, all this study did was find an association between acetaminophen use very near the time of child birth and neural atypical children. Acetaminophen is often administered to mothers in labour, and this may be what this study mainly detected in the umbilical cord. It beggars belief that administering acetaminophen during labour would cause autism, ADHD, and so on. Again, this needs explaining.
When a study raises so many basic questions, the best approach is not to accept the results, but to dig deeper to first answer those questions.
Thus spake “Shiller Marmot.”
Blind us by science more.
Neurotypical? Wut dat mean??
He’s definitely an expert in the fallacy of the single cause, as pretty much the entirety of his ‘arguments’ are based on it.
You’re free to debate me, ET.
Well, he’s free to go soak his head, too, but I can understand if he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of freedom but of pointlessness.
If you aren’t subscribed to “Midwestern Doctor”, I would recommend it. You don’t have to believe everything or anything he(?) says, but his point of view is valuable.
My youngest son is autistic. I believe he was injured by a vaccine at age 2 or 3, probably DPT. Right afterwards, he came down with a persistent cough, and then became withdrawn. Go to your local pharmacy, and find an over-the-counter medication (cough syrup, Pepto Bismol, …) that doesn’t have some kind of warning. But all vaccines are “safe and effective”.
Stevie, “neurotypical” is PC speak for “normal”.
As we all know vaccines are like no other product as they are risk free/s. Another fun thing is that it is a pharma product that it is a-ok to give you additional antigen(s) that you don’t need. Have you tried getting a tetanus shot without another antigen?A rubella shot(german measles) because you have no titer for rubella without also getting mumps and measles antigen? Or just the measles without mumps or rubella?In the US that can’t be done. Would you be fine with needing any other pharma product and being forced to take it bundled with something you don’t need?
I have one that was in emergency after both MMR shots, the latter one, at six, landing him with severe Tourette’s within a week of that fevered reaction. He then received the recommendation to never get more, until, of course, Covid hit, after which he was labelled an ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘part of the problem’, even from family members.
His younger brother did not have high fevers or rashes after his shots, but is the autistic one. Both mine were given the recommended children’s Tylenol proceeding and following their shots. One, obviously, fevered and reacted horribly despite that ‘protection’.
We were gaslit by the medical community after my infant son’s first reaction, told WE must have exposed him to ‘something’ before the shot. The doc/nurse suggested we brought him in sick for the shot – couldn’t have been the shot. Therefore I’m inclined NOT to put trust in the quick analysis of those who seem to blindly trust pharma.
I have read and understood every one of the studies that have examined this, but don’t feel a need to make my own arguments as we DO have very qualified experts that are smarter than me making solid recommendations.
Among the authors, Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of the Faculty, Office of the Dean, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, epigeneticist and clinical endocrinologist –
“Higher-quality studies were more likely to show positive associations. Overall, the majority of the studies reported positive associations of prenatal acetaminophen use with ADHD, ASD, or NDDs in offspring, with risk-of-bias and strength-of-evidence ratings informing the overall synthesis.”
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
Tylenol is horse paste! According to the Kentucky Equine Research group, acetaminophen is an effective treatment for pain relief in horses, so don’t, for the love of God, take it!!!
https://ker.com/equinews/equine-pain-relief-tool-kit-veterinarians-add-acetaminophen/
And ivermectin is only for horses, the CDC said so.
I can’t get over how many of my acquaintances still spout off the Ivermectin/horse paste diatribe. It’s as if the news media told them this…..uh….wait a minute…… Many of which have had multiple booster shots, go figure. The glazed over look they give me when I respond that horse paste is horse shit is quite amazing. I get the same look when I tell them that Carney is a bubling fool and what Trump is doing (making USA #1) is something I actually support in a leader. It’s as if a weak dollar, substandard health care and a steady errosion of free speech rights is a virtue to uphold. Canada wants to be seen as the “nice guy” so bad that our very existance is at stake. The US fought a bloody revolution for independance, then a bloody civil war which solidified the union. Canada has hockey and a foreign owned coffee chain to define us. What a cuck nation.