Pregnant women have been warned that taking paracetamol could harm their unborn baby.

The popular painkiller is believed to have lifelong effects on baby boys, raising their risk of everything from infertility to cancer.
Edinburgh University researchers said Britons have become 'blasé' about paracetamol’s potential dangers – and urged pregnant women to think twice before taking the drug.

They said that if the tablets are taken, they should be used in the lowest possible dose, for the shortest possible time.
Pregnant women have been warned that prolonged use of paracetamol could harm their unborn baby boy
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Pregnant women have been warned that prolonged use of paracetamol could harm their unborn baby boy
The Royal College of Midwives said mothers-to-be should seek medical advice before taking paracetamol at all.
And the medicines’ watchdog is to carefully evaluate the research.

Paracetamol is the most widely-used painkiller in the world. And as the only painkiller deemed safe in pregnancy, it is taken by most mothers-to-be.

However several studies have suggested it interferes with the development of the male reproductive system while still in the womb.


This is important because it is thought that if this programming goes wrong, it has lifelong effects, putting the child at higher risk of a range of problems from genital birth defects to infertility and testicular cancer.

Testosterone, which is made in the testicles, is thought to be key to the whole process, so the researchers carried out an experiment designed to show if exposure to paracetamol in the womb cuts levels of the hormone.

The University of Edinburgh study tested the effect of paracetamol on testosterone production in mice that carried grafts of human testicular tissue. These grafts have been shown to mimic how the developing testes grow and function during pregnancy.

Scientists gave the mice a typical daily dose of paracetamol -- over a period of either 24 hours or seven days. They measured the amount of testosterone produced by the human tissue an hour after the final dose of paracetamol.

They found there was no effect on testosterone production following 24 hours of paracetamol treatment. After seven days of exposure, however, the amount of testosterone was reduced by 45 per cent.

The team -- from the University's MRC Centre for Reproductive Health -- say further research is required to establish the mechanism by which paracetamol might have this effect.(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520151626.htm)

pxjosh:
I just heard this for the first time.

moscobabs:
Why not baby girl

Sijo01:


See your life!

Keneking:
Ok...can you expatiate?

As in...make them less potent?
As in ...make them more intelligent and hyperactive?
As in ...make them have headaches for the family?


This government of Jonathan sef

Bonapart:
I dnt believe in shit
I believe in what God can do