Did your mom take Tylenol when she was pregnant?

[marylander1940]

For the record, Tylenol became available in 1950

Would you recommend a pregnant woman to take it? 

Edited September 24 by marylander1940

[BuffaloKyle]

Who would have thought Tylenol is now a political issue? 💊

[+ Charlie]

Tylenol hadn't yet been invented when my mother was pregnant with me, so I can't use that as an excuse.

[marylander1940]

Ibuprofen, Tylenol or doing nothing.... 

[Nightowl]

Because trained medical professionals say it is safe, yes, I’d recommend it.

[samhexum]

My mom didn't need to... knowing she was carrying such an amazing little human kept her happy, smiling, and pain-free for her entire pregnancy.  

She's been gone 20+ years so this is an educated guess that I am unable to confirm.

Edited September 24 by samhexum
for reasons you are not capable of understanding

[Danny-Darko]

8 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

For the record, Tylenol became available in 1950

Would you recommend a pregnant woman to take it? 

Interesting! I wonder why I never heard of Tylenol and Ibuprofen till the 70's? Till then my family used good old-fashon aspirin and St. Joseph's chewable orange flavor aspirin for us children. I remember my mother did have Midol in her medicine cabinet and my father told me it was something just for ladies.  🤒 

[mtaabq]

Please. My mother continued to smoke and drink when she was pregnant with me. Which explains a lot. Tylenol would have been mild in comparison. 

[Km411]

I don’t know if my mom smoked while she was pregnant, but she smoked in the car with the window barely cracked for most of my childhood. She wondered why I always got car sick. I loved her, but damn.

[Becket]

My mom smoked. My mom drank. My mom threw us in the back of the station wagon with no seatbelts. We ran around barefoot all summer, and swam for hours in a dirty river. How we survived I'll never know. But I figured it out. It was her always hugging me, telling me she loved me, that must have made me gay. Of course all that female affection sent me straight to the dick. Thanks, Mom.

[picitup]

Hi from the UK 🤣

 

I have no idea if my mum took Tylenol in pregnancy.  Over here, we call it Paracetomol. Having no medical qualifications myself, I rely on others to tell me what is and isn't safe.  I'd hang my hat on a the medical professionals who say it's safe during pregnancy rather than  a politician I consider to be a raging conspiracy theorist with an agenda who thinks an option for mothers is to 'tough it out'.

Of course, the medical profession don't always get it right,  I was born in 1959, around the time that Thalidomide was given to pregnant mothers for morning sickness.  I'm guessing my mom didn't take it as we're all fine.  For the younger members, Thalidomide caused birth defects, notably very short limbs, so by chance, I certainly dodged a bullet there.

Keep Smilin'

 

Steve

[mike carey]

G'day Steve, welcome to the forum.

We've had considerable push-back in the media here from health professionals and academics. Take-way from what they said is that there is no evidence of any links between paracetamol (tylenol is a brand name, here the most common brand is panadol) and autism. Furthermore, there is apparently no evidence from any properly conducted randomised double-blind studies of negative effects on children from maternal paracetamol use during pregnancy. One thing that has been mentioned as being an established risk, although not for autism, was from a fever during pregnancy, something for which paracetamol is a recognised treatment.

Here, over-the-counter sales from supermarkets, and from pharmacies without the a discussion with qualified staff, are limited to packs of 20 capsules or tablets. Overdosing of paracetamol is a known danger and can be fatal, so there are reasons for caution with its use, but not for the reasons that are being discussed in public at the moment.

[+ nycman]

Did my mom take Tylenol?

I’m sure she did. I mean what with all the hangovers from the smoking and boozing.

How the hell do you think she got pregnant in the first place?

Thanks Parliament, Jack Daniels, and Tylenol for making me the man I am today!

grin

 

[BSR]

Perhaps they’ve recently changed their recommendation, but as of 2017 even the manufacturer recommended against pregnant women taking Tylenol …

 

[Km411]

Did some additional AI research on this: Tylenol maintains it never advised pregnant women not to use Tylenol, and the 2017 twitter post was in response to a consumer inquiry and taken out of context. The original post to which Tylenol responded, has long since been deleted. So, not sure how Tylenol can claim it was taken out of context.

In any event, its labeling has been consistent (including in 2017)—pregnant or breastfeeding women should ask a health professional before use.

[marylander1940]

On 9/25/2025 at 6:12 AM, BSR said:

Perhaps they’ve recently changed their recommendation, but as of 2017 even the manufacturer recommended against pregnant women taking Tylenol …

 

Because of potential risk of autism? 

Most pregnant women are suggested not to take any medicine whatsoever unless it's absolutely necessary. 

That also told to eat healthy. You are what you eat! It's a matter of personal responsibility!

[marylander1940]

I just read a review on Mr number:

"I wonder how much Tylenol his mother took when she was pregnant with him?" 😂 

[pubic_assistance]

On 9/25/2025 at 3:19 AM, picitup said:

.  I'd hang my hat on a the medical professionals who say it's safe during pregnancy rather than  a politician I consider to be a raging conspiracy theorist with an agenda

Correlation is not necessarily causation.

But...it does give reason to be concerned enough to NOT jump to conclusions until additional research is done. There is a little more here than juat a "conspiracy theory" by the HHS secretary. 

Mount Sinai Study Supports Evidence That Prenatal Acetaminophen Use May Be Linked to Increased Risk of Autism and ADHD | Mount Sinai - New York https://share.google/vNc965W9SbwKklGxd

Edited October 14 by pubic_assistance
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[LukePhx]

I am on the Autism Spectrum, but very high functioning.

As with others, my mom took Tylenol and smoked during my pregnancy. I was born 6 weeks early, a little over 5lb, and jaundiced/yellow skin (had to be in an incubator for the first couple of weeks). My younger brother was born full-term and 10ish pounds (natural birth!). No smoking. Every person I have asked that is either on the spectrum was born significantly premature, an extremely high correlation!

My grandmother gave birth to my mom at 42 years old in 1959, and put on a synthetic estrogen called DES:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9720308/

I was under-diagnosed with ADHD in second grade and put on Ritalin, later switched to Adderall my freshman year of high school (too much, actually - affected me socially more than ASD). I'm still prescribed it, but thankfully it is worth more per mg than solid gold!!!

Edited October 15 by LukePhx

[marylander1940]

On 10/14/2025 at 12:25 PM, pubic_assistance said:

Correlation is not necessarily causation.

But...it does give reason to be concerned enough to NOT jump to conclusions until additional research is done. There is a little more here than juat a "conspiracy theory" by the HHS secretary. 

Mount Sinai Study Supports Evidence That Prenatal Acetaminophen Use May Be Linked to Increased Risk of Autism and ADHD | Mount Sinai - New York https://share.google/vNc965W9SbwKklGxd

Exactly.... additional serious and unbiased research is done and not just a press conference

[pubic_assistance]

12 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

Exactly.... additional serious and unbiased research is done and not just a press conference

The point is: there IS already enough reason to be concerned based on the Mount Sinai report. So ignoring valid data because you dont like the messenger is beyond stupid. Better safe than sorry. Pharmaceutical companies always do their best to bury any negative side effects of their profitable products.

[marylander1940]

45 minutes ago, pubic_assistance said:

The point is: there IS already enough reason to be concerned based on the Mount Sinai report. So ignoring valid data because you dont like the messenger is beyond stupid. Better safe than sorry. Pharmaceutical companies always do their best to bury any negative side effects of their profitable products.

Distrusting vaccines IS stupid, I hope we can agree on that. 

Back to subject, is not that I don't like the messengers, I just don't trust them, and they pick only the "data" that matches their talking point in a photo op for their followers, without addressing the real causes of autism in this case.

Besides it's been always recommended for pregnant women not to take medicines of any type unless the Dr. tells them to do it to avoid greater risks for the fetus. 

 

Edited October 16 by marylander1940

[pubic_assistance]

2 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

Distrusting vaccines IS stupid, I hope we can agree on that. 

Well...trusting a pharmaceutical company is like trusting a door-to-door salesman. Of course you "need" what they're selling. 🙄So although, I am not an anti-vaxxer, I also am not quick to just assume that what someone is selling is what I NEED to do.  One of my best friends is the CFO of a pharmaceutical company. I have hear many stories of how turning a profit is more important than actually healing the sick. Lots of research fails at the animal model, but they observe side effects and then just market the drug as a cure for something else. The industry is a lot more sloppy and unethical than what people want to believe. So...distrusting all vaccines is stupid, for sure. Distrusting the industry is NOT as wacko as some would make it out to be simply because they don't like the messenger.

Edited October 16 by pubic_assistance
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[+ sniper]

Univariate analysis is, quite often, hot garbage. You know what's bad for a fetus? The mother having a fever. So you've got selection bias baked into the analysis and no good way to quantify it.  And you can't ethically experiment on pregnant women. 

[marylander1940]

On 10/16/2025 at 10:23 AM, pubic_assistance said:

Well...trusting a pharmaceutical company is like trusting a door-to-door salesman. Of course you "need" what they're selling. 🙄So although, I am not an anti-vaxxer, I also am not quick to just assume that what someone is selling is what I NEED to do.  One of my best friends is the CFO of a pharmaceutical company. I have hear many stories of how turning a profit is more important than actually healing the sick. Lots of research fails at the animal model, but they observe side effects and then just market the drug as a cure for something else. The industry is a lot more sloppy and unethical than what people want to believe. So...distrusting all vaccines is stupid, for sure. Distrusting the industry is NOT as wacko as some would make it out to be simply because they don't like the messenger.

The "messenger" also suggested injecting bleach and disinfectants to get rid of Covid-19. 

Maybe we need to end direct advertising towards potential clients/patients to encourage "Dr. shopping". In most countries pharmaceutical companies talk to your Dr. and not directly to people like you and I, who don't have knowledge about medicine. even with the help of Dr. Google .

 

 

 

Edited October 20 by marylander1940