Pregnant women deserve much better than the Trump theater in Al Khar and Dagge Kate and Darsli
S.On Monday, Donald Trump, surrounded by Robert F. Kennedy Junior and former Talkshow host and head of medical care and medical services centers, Dr. Mohamed Oz, announced that women should avoid paracetamol (known as acetaminophen or the Tilanol brand in the United States) throughout pregnancy due to a warm association with child unification.
This political theater highlights a long -term and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their children, routinely let the partial, weak and missing medical evidence. Pregnant women deserve better lords of newspapers that raise fear based on shaky research that failed to persuade the scientific community.
Regarding the problem, Trump’s announcement focuses on women’s choices as a childhood results driver. Only “if you can’t be difficult” as a pregnant woman, if you resort to treating your pain and fever, as Trump advised. This puts a need for women’s needs by mistake and cruelty against the best interests of their child, instead of seeing the mother and fetus as interrelated. Many women, no matter how skeptical in the Trump administration approach to science, will now be burdened with unfounded concerns about how their options are at risk. All they choose, there is a way for them to blame them.
To clarify: There is no reliable evidence linking autism using the mother paracetamol. The best research indicates the opposite: A large study from 2024 This analyzed the data from 2.5 million women who gave birth to Sweden and their children, who did not find any connection between the use of paracetamol in pregnancy and the nervous diversity of childhood. The researchers looked at whether the mothers of nervous children took paracetamol during pregnancy, but they also have adopted the presence of known risk factors for autism, the indication of paracetamol, and family history of nervous diversity. After calculating these factors, the risk of autism in childhood has not been determined by exposure to paracetamol. Trump did not mention any contradictory new evidence that should push us to review this reassuring conclusion.
Autism has been in the rise in recent years, in a large part of it due to the conversion of diagnostic categories as well as professional and public awareness about nervous diversity. Risk factors are not completely understood for autism, but include genetic, environmental, pregnant and social variables. The main factor is your family’s history: If you have been born in a family with siblings and parents who suffer from autism, you are more likely to be. It is important to emphasize the stain of the shame that Trump’s advertisement will add to the diagnoses of nervous diversity and people who live (and flourish) with them.
It is completely appropriate to ask the question on whether exposure to pregnancy for common drugs affects children in the womb and beyond. However, it is retail production of final answers here; It is difficult to do a good job, It requires accurate design and careful reporting of the results. Trump’s announcement was not like this; It was mainly speculation, and it may have severe consequences.
Illimous diseases during pregnancy can be harmful, not only for women’s health in the long run, but also their child. The “precautionary approach” is often mentioned: If there is any concern about paracetamol, doesn’t a woman avoid being safe to be better than sorry? But the precautions should go in both directions. There is a cost when encouraging pregnant women not to take an effective medicine for pain and fever. These symptoms affect the health of women, performance and luxury, while insecure fever may pose a danger to the child. The research continues, but it seems that the mother’s fever can have negative effects on The development of the child’s brain.
Inhibition of paracetamol using risks that drive women who need to relieve pain towards unlicensed treatments or relieve alternative such as ibuprofen. Unlike paracetamol, ibuprofen offers risk installed in pregnancy in various wealthy people, including miscarriage, fetal kidney damage and early closure of important blood vessels (the arterial canal) in the fetus. These risks greatly outweigh any possible connection between paracetamol and childhood unification.
Today is an opportunity to discuss how to assess the safety of medications during pregnancy. Some research studies include equal numbers of women and men, and the data is often appropriate to see if there are sexual differences in the results. Less number of medications are studied during pregnancy. After the scandals of the Thowmidide and Sodium Valbroit, there are still general concerns about the potential damage of medicines on children, although no of these drugs are not studying in pregnant women before reaching the market. Instead of extensively exporting risks, efforts should be made to build the base of evidence safely by bringing pregnant women who want to participate in biological medical research.
For this reason, Dr. Ed Mulins, the obstetrician, and I cooperate with it Motherhood messageA project for gathering researchers in the field of health care, research financiers, medicine organizers, legal experts and medical publishers, and most importantly, women themselves to understand the reason for the routine exclusion of those pregnant women from research, and how we can change culture safely and respect from exclusion towards an invitation to include women to support the self -supporting patient, and make decisions mentioned. We want to reduce damage on a huge scale, which can occur when incorrect medical advice is provided.
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Covid-19 vaccine exceptions The most prominent of what many researchers and women felt for a long time: medical research should move towards a greater inclusion of pregnancy in studies. What women need is high -quality scientific evidence, based on strong data that look at the risks and benefits that then can be considered in their personal position. This excessive declaration and political motives in the United States will only push this reason.