UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting told British patients to ignore Donald Trump’s call for pregnant women to avoid Tylenol, known in Britain as paracetamol, in a rare instance of a British minister overtly criticizing the US president.
At a White House event Monday, Trump linked acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism, encouraging women to tough out fevers without resorting to the painkiller. The remarks, made alongside health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a longtime critic of mainstream medicine — rattled doctors and drugmakers.
“Don’t pay attention at all to what Donald Trump says about medicine,” Streeting told ITV on Tuesday. “Trust your doctor, trust medical science. I trust doctors over President Trump,” he said.
reddittorbrigade on
Who would have thought that America would be the laughing stock years ago.
belisario262 on
well done. don’t listen to clowns.
daizzy999 on
I surely don’t expect MAGA to care, they don’t realize the rest of the world exists
Initial-Toe-9512 on
how soon till the MAGA – approved acetaminophen that is safe for pregnant women (conveniently owned by Trump)
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starmartyr on
I don’t think they have to worry. A majority of British people probably don’t know what Tylenol is. They have it but it’s called Paracetamol over there and most are unaware that it’s the same thing.
ChanceryTheRapper on
Just drop the last two words.
AiMwithoutBoT on
You’d have to be really fucking stupid to pay attention to Trump on anything medical.
Yarn_Mouse on
I think my country is next.
My breaking news update from CBC said it all: „Trump makes unproven link between autism and Tylenol.“
mowotlarx on
The man can’t even pronounce acetaminophen. Don’t take medical advice from him or anyone around him. There is no link between acetaminophen and autism.
BrilliantCorner on
So, since we’re now admitting that it isn’t vaccines that cause autism, I’m assuming all of the anti-vaxxer idiots will shut up now?
Signal_Category429 on
EVERYONE needs to call him on his stupidity. The nonsense he spews is just dangerous to vulnerable brains.
xibeno9261 on
This isn’t Trump saying something in a press conference. This is from the official US FDA website.
The FDA and HHS is the gold standard worldwide when it comes to health advice.
CurrentlyLucid on
Medical advice from a pair of fools should always be ignored.
mayekju406 on
Why would anyone in their right mind take medical advice from a non medically trained incompetent politician ?
Fugahzee on
As a nurse in America this is a conversation I don’t want to have with my patients. They believe everything on Fox News. I already had to live through people actively DYING from COVID and spouting conspiracy theories about how it isn’t real.
fivetwoeightoh on
The problem here is there are other life-threatening things that Starmer will have to insist they *can* trust Trump on, it’s a literal act of insanity to keep giving the benefit of the doubt to this dangerous moron
JoopahTroopah on
So glad we don’t use the name Tylenol in the UK, otherwise Trumps pronouncements would cause a lot more harm than they otherwise would.
Content-Word-7673 on
That’s pretty telling. When another country has to step in and basically say, “ignore the former U.S. president’s medical advice,” it shows just how reckless Trump’s comments can be.
zero_blammos_given on
Don’t take medical advise from the guy who suggested injecting disinfectant and sunlight to overcome covid.
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Alex Wickham:*
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting told British patients to ignore Donald Trump’s call for pregnant women to avoid Tylenol, known in Britain as paracetamol, in a rare instance of a British minister overtly criticizing the US president.
At a White House event Monday, Trump linked acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism, encouraging women to tough out fevers without resorting to the painkiller. The remarks, made alongside health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a longtime critic of mainstream medicine — rattled doctors and drugmakers.
“Don’t pay attention at all to what Donald Trump says about medicine,” Streeting told ITV on Tuesday. “Trust your doctor, trust medical science. I trust doctors over President Trump,” he said.
Who would have thought that America would be the laughing stock years ago.
well done. don’t listen to clowns.
I surely don’t expect MAGA to care, they don’t realize the rest of the world exists
how soon till the MAGA – approved acetaminophen that is safe for pregnant women (conveniently owned by Trump)
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I don’t think they have to worry. A majority of British people probably don’t know what Tylenol is. They have it but it’s called Paracetamol over there and most are unaware that it’s the same thing.
Just drop the last two words.
You’d have to be really fucking stupid to pay attention to Trump on anything medical.
I think my country is next.
My breaking news update from CBC said it all: „Trump makes unproven link between autism and Tylenol.“
The man can’t even pronounce acetaminophen. Don’t take medical advice from him or anyone around him. There is no link between acetaminophen and autism.
So, since we’re now admitting that it isn’t vaccines that cause autism, I’m assuming all of the anti-vaxxer idiots will shut up now?
EVERYONE needs to call him on his stupidity. The nonsense he spews is just dangerous to vulnerable brains.
This isn’t Trump saying something in a press conference. This is from the official US FDA website.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-responds-evidence-possible-association-between-autism-and-acetaminophen-use-during-pregnancy
And here is information from the official US HHS.
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/autism-announcement-fact-sheet.html
The FDA and HHS is the gold standard worldwide when it comes to health advice.
Medical advice from a pair of fools should always be ignored.
Why would anyone in their right mind take medical advice from a non medically trained incompetent politician ?
As a nurse in America this is a conversation I don’t want to have with my patients. They believe everything on Fox News. I already had to live through people actively DYING from COVID and spouting conspiracy theories about how it isn’t real.
The problem here is there are other life-threatening things that Starmer will have to insist they *can* trust Trump on, it’s a literal act of insanity to keep giving the benefit of the doubt to this dangerous moron
So glad we don’t use the name Tylenol in the UK, otherwise Trumps pronouncements would cause a lot more harm than they otherwise would.
That’s pretty telling. When another country has to step in and basically say, “ignore the former U.S. president’s medical advice,” it shows just how reckless Trump’s comments can be.
Don’t take medical advise from the guy who suggested injecting disinfectant and sunlight to overcome covid.