UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting reportedly 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 openly 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 taking 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.

Streeting’s remarks marked one of the

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