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01 Jul 2016, 11:51 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/01/paracetamol-in-pregnancy-may-be-linked-to-autism/


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02 Jul 2016, 2:20 am

Interesting theory; I'm pretty sure my mum was on daily paracetamol for chronic pain, but I'd have to check. I'd like to see more research about it.



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02 Jul 2016, 6:28 am

Apparently this idea was started in 2008 by a curebie/dentist father named Steve Schultz, who switched from believing that vaccines caused autism to paracetamol as his new culprit theory which he seems to regard as a certainty. So with that certainty in mind, he complied some graphs which he thought proved it.

I think it's highly unlikely.

http://reset.me/story/could-a-common-pa ... -children/



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02 Jul 2016, 9:06 am

I'd be more likely to link a trigger through autoimmune stress of vaccines than a drug which use is probably smaller percentage than even the stats for Autismn in worldwide population total. I never heard of that drug. I took nothing but my asthma meds while pregnant (prednisol, abuterol, fluticasone) and my 14th pregnancy with my middle son I had insulin for 3 months .

I'd be more willing to point it to birth control in system at conception.


I' be more willing to believe something the govt put in water...lel. Than a drug so random.


Not to say it is impossible that maybe some children of those mothers were given an effect that created a diagnosis of autism later


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02 Jul 2016, 11:59 am

Link between paracetamol and autism dismissed by scientists:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/paracetamol-autism-link-dismissed-scientists-a7115411.html