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Maybe not that specifically, but there is growing evidence that acetaminophen has pretty serious effects on adult brain function.
What do you mean? Is there a source on this?
Again subjective, but here's one study.
Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study
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#32How does one exposed to acetaminophen?
Tylenol, as well as many over the counter cold and flu medicines.
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#33Like many other studied effects, this is less likely to be a specific cause of ADHD and autism spectrum symptoms, and more a generator of broad brain malfunction.
The diagnostic criteria for these conditions has two parts - the underlying symptoms themselves, and a severity test that indicates whether the person with them is unable to handle the symptoms well enough to do without treatment. This is explicitly in ADHD and autism spectrum diagnostic criteria, but to a good extent is an unavoidable part of it; if someone is quite brilliant and successful but a little strange, there's no reason for them to ever seek some kind of diagnosis.
I'd be very curious to see IQ test results here, as I suspect that it is an explanatory factor.
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#34I really want to see critique of this work by competent epidemiologists and statisticians. Anything both OTC and ubiquitous has to discount thousands of confounding equally widely distributed cofactors: diesel fumes, poverty, Coca-Cola drinking, exposure to cats...
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It may already be controlled for, but if not, the increased Acetaminophen intake could be from narcotic painkillers, which are often combined with Acetaminophen in prescription preparations to help prevent abuse. The same people seeking and using those around birth may later seek to get an ADHD diagnosis for a child for access to amphetamines, as narcotics use and amphetamine use are highly correlated together.
> the increased Acetaminophen intake could be from narcotic painkillers, which are often combined with Acetaminophen in prescription preparations to help prevent abuse This is just evil. Congratulations, now we have opiate addicts with needlessly destroyed livers as well...
Acetaminophen is a miracle for pain relief, why wouldn't it be used in combinations?
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#36> "By the time the children were an average of 8.9 years, 25.8% had been diagnosed with ADHD only, 6.6% with ASD only and 4.2% with ADHD and ASD" This seems very high - I'd call in to question the validity of the diagnosis (these diagnoses are obviously somewhat subjective). Given that those numbers are for the total cohort, that suggests that something like a full half of the upper third of children were diagnosed w…
I agree, this is not representative of the normal population and calls the results into question.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? Is there a source on this?
Again subjective, but here's one study. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/9/1345/2224135
I know HN is place where anecdotes are not appreciated but here is one nonetheless.
I just caught flu a few days ago and my dad being my dad kept thrusting acetaminophen tablets to me (His way of showing love/care) and I relented after 24 hours of suffering with cold + fever + body aches.
I am 100% convinced that acetaminophen impaired my ability to work with tasks that required deep thinking. e.g: refactoring a feature that is spread across multiple services/repos.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again subjective, but here's one study. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/9/1345/2224135
I know HN is place where anecdotes are not appreciated but here is one nonetheless. I just caught flu a few days ago and my dad being my dad kept thrusting acetaminophen tablets to me (His way of showing love/care) and I relented after 24 hours of suffering with cold + fever + body aches. I am 100% convinced that acetaminophen impaired my ability to work with tasks that required deep thinking. e.g: refactoring a feat…
Impaired your ability temporarily/while you were taking it, or permanently/after you stopped?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know HN is place where anecdotes are not appreciated but here is one nonetheless. I just caught flu a few days ago and my dad being my dad kept thrusting acetaminophen tablets to me (His way of showing love/care) and I relented after 24 hours of suffering with cold + fever + body aches. I am 100% convinced that acetaminophen impaired my ability to work with tasks that required deep thinking. e.g: refactoring a feat…
Impaired your ability temporarily/while you were taking it, or permanently/after you stopped?
Impaired temporarily (~12 hours) after taking the tabs.
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Maybe not that specifically, but there is growing evidence that acetaminophen has pretty serious effects on adult brain function.
What do you mean? Is there a source on this?
I’ve heard people claim that If acetaminophen were submitted for approval today, it wouldn’t be accepted.