A recent study shows that child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) risk could be linked to the mother’s use of acetaminophen, as the paper’s senior researcher warned Thursday that federal officials may need to reevaluate the commonly used medication.
A study released earlier this month shows that upward of 70 percent of pregnant women use acetaminophen—the main ingredient used in Tylenol and other over-the-counter (OTC) pain-relief medications—during pregnancy to control pain or to reduce their fever.
The paper, which tracked 307 women from 2006 to 2011 who submitted blood samples during their pregnancy, looked into whether they had biomarkers showing they had taken acetaminophen. Children born to these mothers were tracked for eight to 10 years afterward….