Acetaminophen's Deadly Scourge shared a link.
Please chip in a few bucks if you can. This documentary will help this hypothesis reach a larger audience and hopefully garner more support for research that will answer this question. Right now the available evidence is
not strong enough to change recommendations, which means the public is not being warned about the possible risks.
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Rosemary Waring interview-worth a read! She explains the sulfate problems in autistics:
https://www.google.com/…/autism-research-connections-3…/amp/
From the New York Times: "We really tried all the tricks in the book to remove this effect and we can't make it go away"
https://www.nytimes.com/…/does-an-adhd-link-mean-tylenol-is…
Please read the effing label! Better yet, just toss it in the trash! Too much Tylenol can KILL you and cause permanent damage to your offspring!
#justthrowitaway #quitbuyingthiscrap #tylenolkills
https://mobile.nytimes.com/…/was-this-a-virus-or-something-…
Oh look, MORE evidence linking the world's most popular pain reliever/fever reducer (thanks in large part to Johnson & Johnson's super aggressive marketing ploys) to adverse neurological outcomes in children.
Predictably, the usual skeptics are pooh-poohing it, saying there's just not enough evidence yet to warn women of childbearing age about this.
Meanwhile, pharma gets away with continued harm to millions of vulnerable kids, while selling ADHD drugs to 'fix' the proble...ms they are creating.
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They don't know the half of it...
https://www.acsh.org/…/tylenol-far-most-dangerous-drug-ever…
It's vitally important that the conversation surrounding autism environmental triggers shifts towards plausible hypotheses. Parker et al. make their case for investigating early exposure to acetaminophen. Please share widely.
New review from Duke and Harvard presenting the evidence and suggesting that acetaminophen use by infants may be the most significant autism risk factor:
The r...ole of oxidative stress, inflammation and acetaminophen exposure from birth to early childhood in the induction of autism
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0300060517693423
***News flash***
The makers of Tylenol do not recommend using any of their products during pregnancy.
Gee, thanks for letting me know about this 22 years too late. My doctors always said it was so safe. Wonder where on earth they could have gotten that idea? 
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Any hope of having links between acetaminophen and autism and other pediatric neurological disorders investigated in this country is all but gone with this new administration.
I predict that there will be much more continued focus on vaccines as the main cause of autism, (as evidenced by Trump's previous remarks, his adoration of Andrew Wakefield, and RFK Jr, not to mention his hostility to science) which of course will only serve to delay and divert attention away from ace...taminophen as a potential cause.
Furthermore, with Trump's appointment of his old friend, and top campaign contributor, Woody Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, as United States Ambassador to the UK, do you really think Trump's administration is going to support research into potential autism causes (remember, TYLENOL is one of Johnson & Johnson's most popular drugs) that might hurt his old pal's stock portfolio?
Fat chance.
http://www.npr.org/…/another-campaign-donor-gets-a-top-amba…
"Antipyretic analgesic use, including prophylaxis, around vaccinations was common in our study population. Effective interventions are needed to target parents/caregivers to eliminate unnecessary antipyretic analgesic use around vaccination time and foster nonmedication alternatives."
Gee...I wonder where all these parents got the idea to premedicate their babies before vaccine appointments?
"Drug safety experts have long called for tighter rules around acetaminophen — but Thursday’s changes, some say, don’t go far enough.
“It’s underwhelming,” said Dr. David Juurlink, a drug safety researcher with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. “It’s difficult to argue that any of the measures that they are implementing are bad; they’re all good ideas. But they’re not going to accomplish very much.”
Acetaminophen is one of Canada’s oldest and most popular painkillers, found ...in 445 products currently sold to Canadians — everything from Tylenol (the brand that popularized the drug) to NyQuil, NeoCitran and prescription drugs like Percocet. The drug can be easily purchased at any corner store or gas station, sometimes in 100 or 200-pill quantities.
But drug safety experts say the painkiller, if introduced today, probably wouldn’t be approved as an over-the-counter drug by modern-day regulators.
This is because acetaminophen has an alarmingly “narrow therapeutic window” — meaning the dose that hurts is dangerously close to the daily dose recommended on pill bottles."
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"The odd thing about acetaminophen is that even after decades of widespread use, no one knows precisely how it blunts pain. But it has earned a reputation for strange side effects. Experiments indicate that it impedes people’s ability to empathize. It may undercut the brain’s ability to detect errors. When taken after a vaccine, it may suppress the immune system. Why might the drug affect both asthma and A.D.H.D. rates? Scientists have variously speculated that it could tweak the immune system during pregnancy, or disrupt hormones, or change growth factors in the developing brain. In short, no one knows."
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CONCLUSION:
The effect of paracetamol on monoaminergic neurotransmission in the cerebellum is reflected by changes in the level of catabolic end-products of serotonin (5-HIAA) and noradrenaline (MHPG) degradation. Further work is required to define the mechanism of action and impact of prenatal and postnatal exposure to paracetamol in the cerebellum and other structures of the central nervous system (CNS).
Hmmm...
..."Changes in the level and turnover of cerebellar neurotransmitters may be induced by impaired sulfation due to long-term paracetamol administration during the prenatal and postnatal period." (from full text)
A very sad reminder that acetaminophen (often added to opiates to deter abuse) is particularly dangerous when combined with alcohol.
"Dean McCullagh, a father-of -two, had been taking co-codamol tablets containing both paracetamol and codeine for back pain following a road traffic accident in 2013. He became critically unwell after returning from a stag party in Munich and died a month later, on April 24, 2015."
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Full text of yesterday's new study once again showing behavioral effects from prenatal acetaminophen use.
Weigh this one with ALL the previous evidence, and I think you'll agree...heavy use of this drug is NOT safe in pregnancy, and quite possibly, not safe at any other time, either.
Even if you don't agree, though...hopefully, you'll help to put pressure on policymakers to put forth more funds to study this further.
...Association of Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy With Behavioral Problems in Childhood: Evidence Against Confounding
Conclusions and Relevance: Children exposed to acetaminophen prenatally are at increased risk of multiple behavioral difficulties, and the associations do not appear to be explained by unmeasured behavioral or social factors linked to acetaminophen use insofar as they are not observed for postnatal or partner’s acetaminophen use. Although these results could have implications for public health advice, further studies are required to replicate the findings and to understand mechanisms.
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