In my unscientific opinion, Tylenol DOES NOT cause autism. Hypothetically though, I’m confused about the premise here. Is it supposedly only from Tylenol given after a vaccination or just giving a child Tylenol in general? In any event no, just plain no.
I curious as to the tin-foil-hat reason why Tylenol in combination with a vaccine has such alleged effects; but Tylenol in combination with an actual viral infection does not.
However, I’m not so curious as to subject myself to the Youtube video.
it’s not borne from any legitimate effects or side effects of Tylenol. it’s just people steadfastly refusing to accept reality. it’s like “Ok, if vaccines don’t cause autism, maybe it’s this thing done after vaccination then! No? Well, maybe it’s this other thing done sometime after vaccination then.” Ad nauseum.
“I want to believe” is not just the tagline for a '90s sci-fi TV show.
Let’s look at the big picture here. Let’s suppose that there is SOMETHING that causes autism (as opposed to it being a genetic disease that there’s nothing you can do about). Now ask yourself if eventually someone will figure out what the something is that’s causing autism (as opposed to the idea that maybe we will never figure it out). Now ask yourself who that person will be that makes that amazing discovery.
Do you think it will be the guy who wrote the book Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus?
Do you think it will be a kindergarten teacher from Ohio?
Do you think it will be Miam Bialik?
Do you think it will be you?
I’m willing to bet long odds it won’t be any of those four people.
Yes, I understand that 100%. That was not the question I was asking in my post.
Found your problem!
Good sources!
Seems people are in various states of denial that autism is probably not caused by things such as vaccines and other medicines, but rather, genetics increasing the potential for autism to be expressed later in development and in-utero conditions. As with many other human conditions.
Personally, I blame Canada.
Once again, if it is true that there are no medical tests that can diagnose autism, then how can any scans or anything else detect the presence of autism in utero? And if there are in fact medical tests to diagnose autism, why do so many doctors and hospitals insist there are not?
There are known differences associated with autism but we are not yet at the point where we can administer a test and know for certain. In other words, each of those tests showed differences, post-mortem or otherwise, but the puzzle isn’t complete yet.
Organic food, bah, that’s just a case of correlation, not causation. The real reason is the rise of cell phones AND SUVs :eek:. That’s REAL causation.
Okay, no actual studies. [del]Author[/del] charlton is a quack. Internet/Facebook/Twitter theories (and your crazy uncle/cousin/dad) are not reliable sources for “sciency” stuff.
Plus, a post-mortem test isn’t very useful for diagnosis, no matter how accurate it is.
True, that. It would be awkward to kill all those kids for science.
Autism was identified and described in the scientific literature decades before acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) was available as a OTC medicine, and about a decade before it was available as a prescription drug in the US.
It was available in the UK OTC long before it was available in the US, but I don’t think the UK saw more cases of autism than the US during the period when acetaminophen (called paracetamol in the UK) was easily available there, but not in the US.
Because Reye’s syndrome had not yet been associated with aspirin, and therefore giving children aspirin was considered safe, young children were given aspirin for fevers, and that’s what children would have been given from the time fever was identified as a risk of vaccines, until Reye’s was identified as caused by aspirin given for fevers associated with viral infections, and parents were told not to give young children aspirin for a fever, or aches associated with a virus. I remember getting children’s chewable aspirin (St. Joseph’s, orange flavored) back all through the 1970s.
Now, what’s more, children in the US are not ROUTINELY given acetaminophen along with vaccines, and when they are, it is usually for pain. My son got it for pain with one particular shot that supposedly left a sore spot at the injection site that persisted for a day of so, but not with any other vaccine. We monitored him for fevers, but he never got one. If he had, we would have given him ibuprofen, which is more effective for fevers than acetaminophen.
This theory is really grasping at straws.
I don’t think there is credible evidence linking autism to acetaminophen, which is commonly given to children. That said, elevated temperature in children often does not require medication, although this tends to make parents and some doctors feel better.
My daughter started showing signs from the day she was born. We just didn’t recognize them until she was about 18 months old. A lot of parents of autistic children have these same recollections.
FTR I don’t think I ever gave her Tylenol. I gave her ibuprofen sometimes. Maybe Dr. Gray has his analgesics confused. 
In addition, many people with autism also have other genetic disorders, like IDIC-15 ( a partial duplication of the 15th chromosome) or Fragile X Syndrome.
For that matter, Jenny McCarthy’s son was eventually diagnosed with Landau-Kleffner syndrome, which does produce autism-like symptoms.
There’s a reason this thread is about autism, and not about colds - people are spreading fear purely for the sake of spreading fear and watching it grow.
Autism is not a scary monster. Autism is not a parent’s worst nightmare, nor anywhere close - unless people are just having really boring nightmares these days. Autistic people are weird - well, so what? Grow up.
The one question that should be settled before trying to establish a causal link is…Is the incidence of Autism in Cuba actually lower than in the USA? Seeing as it is a broad spectrum disorder and subject to variations in diagnosis you would have to be certain that you were comparing like with like before moving to consider why that may be.
I didn’t see that addressed anywhere in that video.
That’s overly simplistic. Autism can result in people who can never live independently. As a parent, that’s my worse nightmare, simply because my child would always need to be taken care of, and will have to be taken care of by someone Not Me for decades after my death. There is real possibility of poverty, abuse, and suffering in that scenario, and a parent isn’t just being bigoted against non-neurotypical individuals to dread that possibility.
In the same vein, some autistic kids are forever non-verbal, and pretty non-expressive in other ways. The best parts of parenthood are communicating with my son, and his open and easy affection. It’s not bigotry to see not having those as a real loss.
So, guys, the OP topic was “does Tylenol cause autism”. Before we go off the side rails on a much more sensitive debate, we should concur that Tylenol does not cause autism.