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Does paracetamol use by pregnant women increase the risk of autism in children?
Sunday Island
|September 28, 2025
PETALING JAYA: Paracetamol is a drug that has commonly been used for decades to treat pain and fever, even by pregnant women.
Paracetamol Various studies have shown strong evidence that high-quality data is lacking to link pregnancy or childhood vaccines with autism.
However, United States President Donald Trump recently claimed that pregnant mothers using the drug would raise the chances of their children being autistic.
He also claimed that childhood vaccinations were linked to autism as well as promoting folinic acid (leucovorin) as a treatment for autism.
Is there any truth to this claim?
VERDICT: FALSE
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