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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UCLA is finding an association between use of Tylenol during pregnancy and later ADHD.[/quote]

No, the study shows a correlation between use of Tylenol during pregnancy and a higher prevelance of ADHD in the children born to them.  Correlation is not causation.  In fact, one of the researchers noted the causation could be a link between who are more sensitive to pain and having a child with ADHD.  Thus the use of the pain medication may point to the cause rsther than be the cause itself.[/quote]
Thanks for additional info. Link?[/quote]

I wonder how they can study this with any accuracy. Most kids aren't diagnosed with ADHD until they're preschoolers at the earliest and at least for me, by that time my memory of Tylenol use during pregnancy would have been a total guess.[/quote]

You take the opposite approach.
You ask a pool of pregnant women to record their tylenol usage.
Then track them for a while (10+ yrs?) and see which ones develop ADHD.
It would be a long term study, but you are right, you can't just ask women year later.
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