Tylenol and autism

[Anonymous]

I took it as needed during my pregnancies. Both of my kids have ADHD. But I have also have ADHD, and it runs in my family.

[Anonymous]

I took both Zantac and Tylenol during both pregnancies (incidentally ACV can help with heartburn!), as my very crunchy midwife told me both were fine, 10+ years ago. Now I have one autistic child and one who may have ADHD but is too young to be sure. The prevalence of both autism and ADHD is pretty high in the general population, so I’m curious how to really have any kind of controlled conclusion here. Many many people take Tylenol during pregnancy (and the risk of fever is also not great for pregnant women/fetuses).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ACV in water will kill a fever just as good as a Tylenol.

Doubtful. I suspect that drinking cold water has more to do with temporarily reducing a fever than vinegar. It is extremely important to treat a fever in pregnancy and you shouldn't trust some random internet remedy to do the job. Take a tepid bath if you can't bring yourself to medicate for a fever during pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

For Tylenol to cause autism, your child probably needs to have predisposition genes for autism, and you probably need to take it for a relatively long length of time. I find it improbable that one or two days of advil would grossly affect neurodevelopment.

Infection during pregnancy, and particularly influenza, has also been linked to autism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t fear monger without heeding the data:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pregnant-women-heres-one-less-thing-to-worry-about/

No fear mongering has been done, werido.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing drives me crazy.

I am the mom of 5 NT kids and one ASD kid. I tried to avoid all meds during pregnancy, but am allergic to advil and aspirin, and had occasional migraines. So I did take very limited Tylenol in my pregnancies.

The dc that has asd, I took it maybe twice. One of my dc's, I had cluster migraines and took it much more, and they are NT.

As a mom of an autistic person, I'm so tired of being blamed for that. First off, my dc is amazing. Secondly, yes, I took a tylenol. I ate a hot dog. I'm old. , ect ect ect ...all ways I have heard to blame the pregnant person.

In reality, the far far far most likely reason for it is genetics. Just like for almost everything else. It is dx more now as we are more aware of it, but we all have that 'quirky' or unique relative in the family tree, who was probably not dx.

No, not joining any lawsuit.

+1. I ate the allergy foods, too. Then the DC comes into the world with food allergies and they try to blame the mom.
Totally feel this. One of my kids has a nut allergy with no family history. I was pregnant with her during the “don’t eat PB” while pregnant period and “wait to give it to babies.” Boom, nut allergy. Of course they have reversed all this now and I feel like I totally screwed her for life, even though I did what I was “supposed” to at the time. I am still resentful they have that recommendation without being sure, clearly.

PP, I ate PB all through pregnancy and while nursing, and gave it to baby at 6 months. Boom, anaphylaxis and a peanut allergy. We have no allergies on either side of the family either. The truth is that they still don’t fully know why the allergies occur. But it’s always the default to blame moms, just in case…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ACV in water will kill a fever just as good as a Tylenol.

I had to google ACV. First result was some car auction thing, second was apple cider vinegar. Does everyone seriously just know that PP meant apple cider vinegar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Tylenol to cause autism, your child probably needs to have predisposition genes for autism, and you probably need to take it for a relatively long length of time. I find it improbable that one or two days of advil would grossly affect neurodevelopment.

Infection during pregnancy, and particularly influenza, has also been linked to autism.

+1 a fever/infection in a pregnant woman is associated with lots of bad outcomes. Probably better to take the Tylenol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Tylenol to cause autism, your child probably needs to have predisposition genes for autism, and you probably need to take it for a relatively long length of time. I find it improbable that one or two days of advil would grossly affect neurodevelopment.

Infection during pregnancy, and particularly influenza, has also been linked to autism.

Tylenol and Advil are not the same drug. Advil (ibuprofen) is not recommended in pregnancy at all, although I know pregnant women who took it on occasion without issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing drives me crazy.

I am the mom of 5 NT kids and one ASD kid. I tried to avoid all meds during pregnancy, but am allergic to advil and aspirin, and had occasional migraines. So I did take very limited Tylenol in my pregnancies.

The dc that has asd, I took it maybe twice. One of my dc's, I had cluster migraines and took it much more, and they are NT.

As a mom of an autistic person, I'm so tired of being blamed for that. First off, my dc is amazing. Secondly, yes, I took a tylenol. I ate a hot dog. I'm old. , ect ect ect ...all ways I have heard to blame the pregnant person.

In reality, the far far far most likely reason for it is genetics. Just like for almost everything else. It is dx more now as we are more aware of it, but we all have that 'quirky' or unique relative in the family tree, who was probably not dx.

No, not joining any lawsuit.

+1. I ate the allergy foods, too. Then the DC comes into the world with food allergies and they try to blame the mom.
Totally feel this. One of my kids has a nut allergy with no family history. I was pregnant with her during the “don’t eat PB” while pregnant period and “wait to give it to babies.” Boom, nut allergy. Of course they have reversed all this now and I feel like I totally screwed her for life, even though I did what I was “supposed” to at the time. I am still resentful they have that recommendation without being sure, clearly.

PP, I ate PB all through pregnancy and while nursing, and gave it to baby at 6 months. Boom, anaphylaxis and a peanut allergy. We have no allergies on either side of the family either. The truth is that they still don’t fully know why the allergies occur. But it’s always the default to blame moms, just in case…

NP. I was pregnant during the “avoid all nuts” phase and that kid has anaphylactic allergies to all nuts. So true that the mom gets all the blame.

[Anonymous]

Tylenol reduces glutathione levels, which is the obvious connection. Obviously there would have to be a genetic propensity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ACV in water will kill a fever just as good as a Tylenol.

Doubtful. I suspect that drinking cold water has more to do with temporarily reducing a fever than vinegar. It is extremely important to treat a fever in pregnancy and you shouldn't trust some random internet remedy to do the job. Take a tepid bath if you can't bring yourself to medicate for a fever during pregnancy.

It’s not the water, my grandma used to give it to me straight from a spoon as a kid. Having dentist in the family now says mix with water due to acidity being bad for teeth if undiluted.

You can try it or not and just take your Tylenol. I take excedrin migraine on occasion. I’m not anti-meds here but ACV is an old school method of killing a fever. Granny also sometimes used to mix acv with lugols iodine, j.crow brand, if just acv didn’t work - but i don’t know if pregnant women can take iodine so I wouldn’t suggest that unless you know that answer. Usually ACV alone works fine for me in adulthood but I do take iodine semi-regularly anyways.

Do it or don’t do it, forums are a place for ideas, if you don’t like the idea then don’t try it. Simple really.

[Anonymous]

One blessing of DD’s very late diagnosis (HS) is that I no longer remember every little thing I did while pregnant and my OB has retired.

[Anonymous]

And all of this is why many people question the COVID vaccine. We still can’t figure out the dangers of Tylenol which has been around a lot longer

[Anonymous]

Did not take with #1. He is in spectrum with adhd. Family history on male side. Took with #2 as I was quite sick and she has no neurological issues at all. Anecdata for sure but it’s likely epigenetic and genetic.