New Study Finds No Link Between Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes
Our latest research analyzing over 8,900 mother-infant pairs in the NIH's ECHO program reveals no statistically significant evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy negatively impacts gestational age or birth weight. While we found an association with lower odds of a child being born large-for-gestational-age, these findings offer important reassurance for the widespread use of Tylenol to treat pain and fever during pregnancy.
Given the widespread use of acetaminophen, these findings offer important reassurance about its safety with respect to birth timing and infant size.
- anonymousiam
This paper says there are no adverse effects to the mother, but it does not mention possible adverse effects to the child beyond "birth health" and does not address the recent controversy about a possible link to autism.
- tsoukase
It's very difficult and boring to follow a newborn until at least their 16th year of age, when mental development and IQ stabilise. It would be interesting if we new about the effects of eg. breast feeding, co-sleeping, parenting types and even mother's drugs like anti epileptics during pregnancy. There are some long term studies that follow newborns and they tell a lot, although they swim in a confounding ocean.
- tootie
And yet I still see MAHA defenders even on HN.
- DANmode
Now do the study in mutated (MTHR, MTHFR, COMT, others, some combination of them) sample populations.
- qsera
clean chit!