President Donald Trump has claimed that there’s a link between women taking paracetamol during pregnancy and their children having autism.

He said at the White House on Monday the medication is “not good” and that “for this reason” the US Food and Drug Administration is “strongly recommending” that women “limit” its use during pregnancy “unless medically necessary”.

This comes after he said on Saturday: “I think we found an answer to autism” and White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that there is “mounting evidence finding a connection between [paracetamol] use during pregnancy and autism”.

Let’s take a look.

The key terms

We’re going to look at a number of studies in this article – so here are some of the key terms you’ll need to make sense of them.

Tylenol

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