Children could face a higher risk of developing Attention/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) If their mothers took acetaminophen – the usual pain relief and a fever reduction – during pregnancy, researchers revealed.
The study, which encouraged new discussions on the controversial topic, was recently published in the magazine Nature Mental Health.
“Compared to exposure, the detection of acetaminophen in the blood of the mother during pregnancy was associated with three times higher than the likelihood of a child developing ADHD,” said Brennan Brennan Baker, researcher from the Seattlen’s Research Institute, for the Fox News Digital.
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To collect data, researchers have taken blood samples of 307 blacks during their blood samples The second quarter of pregnancyThen tested for markers of the drug to reduce fever.
Children could face a greater risk of developing attention disorders of attention/hyperactivity deficiency if their mothers were taking acetaminofen during pregnancy, researchers revealed. (East)
They also sampled their mother’s placenta after delivery to seek signs of increased inflammation in those exposed to acetaminophen.
(Previous studies have linked elevated inflammatory and immune reactions during pregnancy with harmful neurounce in childrenBaker noted.)
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The researchers then monitored children between the ages of 8 and 10 to determine how diagnosed with ADHD, and then determined whether the prenatal exposure to acetaminophene was associated with a higher likelihood of disorders.
Researchers have also discovered DNA changes Associated with the paths of the immune system in the beds that were exposed to acetaminophene, which was associated with a greater chance of children develop ADHD.
“What this study is good is that it brings us closer to understanding the prenatal risk factors that can be changed.”
“This indicates that the disorders of the immune system could be a mechanism that connects this exposure to child neurourage,” Baker said.
Dr. Ryan Sultan, a doctor at New York-Pressyterian Hospital and Director of Mental Health Informatics Laboratory at the Columbia University Medical Center, said the studies were “important in view”.
“What this study is good is that it encourages us closer to understanding an alternating Prenatal risk factors“The Sultan, who was not involved in the research, told Fox News Digital.
Acetaminophen is a common pain relief and a fever reduction. (East)
Although the study adds to the growing consensus that acetaminophen is not without risk, it does not mean that pregnant women cannot take Tylenol or Other medicines Contains acetaminophen, experts told Fox News Digital.
“When it is possible, it should be used frugal and only when medically needed during pregnancy,” the Sultan advised.
Conflicting studies
There is a conflict study on the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and the risk of adverse neur development.
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For example, a recent study nearly 2.5 million Swedish children did not increase last year risk of autismADHD or intellectual disability among brothers and sisters who were exposed to painkillers before birth.
ADHD is one of the most common conditions of mental health during childhood, according to the American psychiatric association. (East)
However, a national study in Taiwan revealed that the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy increased the development of ADHD offspring, whether mothers had mothers, whether mothers had mothers Mental health disorders.
Many previous studies have relied on self-decenation on mothers-which underestimates use, because many people take acetaminophen without knowing it, Baker states.
Study limitations
The Sultan warned that the study had certain restrictions.
His sample size was small, the population was limited to black mother in the south, and the exposure of acetaminophenophen was measured only at one point, he noted.
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Another major limit is the design of the study, as it cannot prove that the use of acetaminophenophen causes ADHD.
“We can never be 100% sure that the association is causal in a observation study like this, because there may always be unknown confusing factors,” Baker told Fox News Digital.
ADHD is a “complex, multifactic deficit in executive functioning” that can be manifested in different ways, one expert states. (East)
“We have tried to control as many factors as possible, including the family history of mental health condition, the mother’s use of antibiotics, the mother’s use of other drugs used for pain/fever, socioeconomic status of family and a prenatal exposure to tobacco and alcohol,” he added.
While researchers may have identified a Possible risk for ADHDThe state of mental health is a “complex, multifactic deficit in executive functioning” that can be manifested in different ways, according to Dr. Lama Bazzi, a psychiatrist in private practice in New York.
“We can never be 100% sure that the Association is causal in an observation study like this.”
They are about Six million pregnancies Each year and 80% of women, it takes at least one medicine for a health problem diagnosed before or during pregnancy, according to the US Food and Medication Administration.
Most women take acetaminophen at some point during pregnancy, with more use than those with Anxiety and depressionaccording to past research.
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ADHD is one of the most common conditions of mental health during childhood, according to the American psychiatric association.
The study was partly funded by the National Health Institutes. Fox News Digital has reached for drug producers containing acetaminofen for comment.
