Ignore Trump claims on paracetamol and autism, Streeting tells pregnant women
Health secretary, pregnant women, Donald Trump’s use of paracetamol during pregnancy may be linked to autism.
The US president advised pregnant women over and over again at a press conference on Monday – the drug known as paracetamol in the UK – suggesting that autism was a potential reason.
But Wes Streeting joined scientists While condemning allegations around the world, he calls people to trust doctors through MRI Embers.
Mr. Streeting Tell the ITVs Lorraine: “I can only tell people who follow, don’t pay attention to what Donald Trump says about medicine.”
“Frankly, I trust doctors about it,” he said. Im I must be really clear about this: There is no evidence to associate the use of paracetamol by pregnant women with autism in children.
“In fact, a significant study of 2.4 million children in Sweden in 2024 was conducted and did not support these claims.
“So I can only tell people who follow, don’t pay any attention to what Donald Trump says about medicine. In fact, as a politician, don’t even take my word as a politician – listen to British doctors, British scientists, NHS.
“A time you know there is skepticism – and I don’t think that questioning itself is something bad to ask questions, ask questions – but we must follow medical science.”
In the UK, the NHS website “If you are pregnant, paracetamol is the first painkiller. It is widely taken during pregnancy and does not harm your baby”.
Scientists around the world, including England, criticized the allegations and one of them said the risk of stamping it for bringing families with autistic children to them ”.
There are also concerns that “fear” will prevent women from accessing appropriate care during pregnancy.
Durham University Social and Development Psychology Associate Professor Dr. Monicque Botha said that there is no “solid evidence or convincing work to propose a connection between common painkillers and autism.
Orum I have extraordinary confidence in saying that there is no relationship, ”he said.
“Fear will prevent women from accessing appropriate care during pregnancy.
“Similarly, for pregnant women, painkillers are mercilessly missing, and Paracetamol is fundamentally more safer painkillers during pregnancy, and we need to take the pain seriously for women while getting pregnant.”
“In addition, as we have seen the families with autistic children and the last 70 years, as we have seen again, the families who revived the long -mother shame and the crime, revives the families of the stamping families that we try to pay the mistake of autism in the mother’s door.”
George Global Health Institute, Empire College, a clinical associate professor in London. Edward Mullins said evidence shows that there was no connection between the use of paracetamol during pregnancy and autism.
He said: “In the absence of any new evidence, the press release reported by the Trump administration will appear as a non -fundamental theory that will lead to an important treatment for women in pregnancy contrary to the US and European medical guidance.”
Similarly, Professor Claire Anderson, President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Association, said that paracetamol was used safely by millions of people for decades, including during pregnancy ”.
He added that a large 2024 study could not find evidence that there was a connection between the use of paracetamol during pregnancy and the risk of autism in children.
In August of this year, a study of Harvard Th Chan Public Health School and Sinai Mountain may mean that exposure to acetaminophane, also known as tylenol or paracetamol during pregnancy, may mean that children are more likely to develop neurotic disorders, including autism and ADHD.
The researchers published in BMC Environmental Health analyzed the results of the previous 46 studies.
Although steps should be taken to limit the use of paracetamol, they concluded that the drug is important to treat mothers fever and pain, and this may damage infants.
