Tylenol in being pregnant not linked with autism, Danish research finds

[ad_1] The usage of Tylenol by ladies throughout being pregnant was not related to autism of their kids, based on outcomes of a nationwide research in Denmark revealed on Monday.

Amongst greater than 1.5 million kids born between 1997 and 2022, together with 31,098 uncovered to Tylenol within the womb, autism was later recognized in 1.8% of uncovered kids and three% of the unexposed group, Danish researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics .

The shortage of an affiliation persevered after researchers accounted for particular person danger components together with the dose of the drug and the trimester of being pregnant by which it was used, the report mentioned.

A 2024 Swedish study additionally discovered no hyperlink between autism and being pregnant use of Tylenol, a model identify for acetaminophen and paracetamol.

A 2025 review by U.S. researchers of 46 earlier research did recommend a potential hyperlink between prenatal acetaminophen publicity and neurodevelopmental problems comparable to autism and a focus deficit hyperactivity dysfunction in kids, however the researchers mentioned the research doesn't show the drug prompted these circumstances. They suggested that pregnant ladies ought to proceed to make use of acetaminophen as wanted, on the lowest potential dose and for the shortest potential interval.

In September, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration mentioned it was initiating the method for a label change for acetaminophen to warn that its use by pregnant ladies could also be related with an elevated danger of autism and ADHD. On the time of the FDA announcement, U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned pregnant ladies and infants should not take the drug due to its hyperlink with autism.

Since then, nationwide and worldwide medical teams have decried the president’s comments , saying they have been not evidence-based .

A month after the FDA mentioned it will suggest limiting Tylenol use in being pregnant, U.S. Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. mentioned evidence does not show that Tylenol definitively causes autism however that it ought to nonetheless be used cautiously.