Friday, February 28, 2014

Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy linked to ADHD in children, UCLA researchers say




To all my ADHD peeps, thank Bayer and other big pharma for pushing this stuff on your moms... No scientific study can ever prove anything 100% safe... However, the sensitivity of fetuses to environmental chemical exposures during development is only now just getting more strict attention, and these studies should give us pause as to what we put in our bodies. Especially the effects of low-level, long term chronic chemical/drug exposure, since safety thresholds are usually established for short term exposure at high levels.  Btw many of the tests that establish chemical non-toxicity are based on animal research (by FDA law) and thus can give a false sense of security.  So yeah, let's see which innocuous drug/chemical turns out to be dangerous next...

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/use-of-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy-250121.aspx