Health Canada pushes back against Trump’s claims about tilanol during pregnancy
Health Canada is returning against US President Donald Trump’s claim that the use of tilanol during pregnancy and childhood is associated with autism.
The government department stated that acetaminophen is a recommended treatment for the normal name, pain during pregnancy and fever during pregnancy, and should be used as a doctor directed, “The shortest effective dosage for the shortest duration.” It noted untreated fever and pain can pose health risk for an embryo.
Health Canada said in a posting on its website on Wednesday, “There is no decisive evidence that the use of acetaminophen directed during pregnancy causes autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.”
The department said, “Acetaminophen is usually used to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been safely used by millions of Canadians for decades, with which during pregnancy and during breastfeeding,” the department said.
Health Canada said its advice on the use of acetaminophen is based on “strong, rigid assessment of available scientific evidence”.
The department says that it monitors the use of drugs in Canada and notes that the tilanol label “already gives clear warnings about safe use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.”
“If new scientific evidence displays a risk, the health will take action to update the Canada label, inform health care professionals and advise Canadian people.”
Trump claims unproven link for autism
Trump said on Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will start telling the physicians that taking acetaminophen may be the “very increased risk” of the autism.
Trump said during an official appearance in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, “I want to say that it is so, don’t take Tilanol. Don’t take it.” “Not to take it to fight like hell.”
Both experts and canvoys, which form tilanol, states that there are no decisive evidence supporting the association.
The statement came at the end of an incident in which Trump took a highly unusual step as the President to give direct medical advice to the Americans, who are pregnant or young children care, without presenting new evidence.
US President Donald Trump said without proof that pregnant women should not take acetaminophen as it can cause autism.
Canada (SOGC) obstetric and gynecologist’s society says that the use of tilanol during pregnancy does not give rise to neurodeavalpmatal disorders.
SOGC said in a statement, “Despite suggesting a cause link between acetaminophen and a pre -delivery risk of some neurodevaluate disorder, SOGC said that the evidence supporting these claims is weak and has been constantly denied by scientific and regulatory bodies.” Posted on your website,
In addition to the claims about the tilanol, Trump also called for a widely tested of debank connection between childhood vaccines and autism.
The President was received by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior was supported by a vaccine critic, who argued that no vaccine is safe.
Kennedy promised to determine the cause of autism before the end of September earlier this year, stating experts that there is no single reason for autism and add to adding that rhetoric is seen ignoring decades of science in genetic and environmental factors that can play a role.
