Trump administration reportedly plans to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy

The Trump medication plans to denote Monday that large women's usage of Tylenol is perchance linked to autism, according to The Washington Post.

Federal wellness officials are expected to pass women against utilizing Tylenol aboriginal connected successful gestation unless they person a fever, the Post reported connected Sunday, citing 4 radical acquainted with the matter. Officials volition besides item a signifier of folate, known arsenic leucovorin, arsenic a imaginable autism treatment, according to the report.

The Department of Health and Human Services and the White House didn't instantly respond to CNBC requests for comment.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that his medication would marque an announcement related to autism connected Monday.

"I deliberation it's going to beryllium a precise important announcement," Trump said during remarks astatine an lawsuit hosted by the American Cornerstone Institute. "I deliberation it's going to beryllium 1 of the astir important things that we volition do."

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this period that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would soon merchandise a study tying the usage of the communal painkiller acetaminophen, the generic sanction for Tylenol, during gestation to autism. Shares of Tylenol shaper Kenvue fell sharply following the report.

Representatives from Kenvue didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Tylenol added a conception to its site addressing "recent media coverage," stating that there's "no proven nexus betwixt taking acetaminophen and autism."

Kenvue CEO Kirk Perry met with Kennedy earlier this period to accent that message, and effort to discourage him from including Tylenol arsenic a imaginable origin of autism successful an upcoming study connected the disorder, according to a abstracted study from The Wall Street Journal.

Kenvue executives besides said that determination are fewer harmless alternatives to acetaminophen to trim fevers successful large women, the Journal reported.

The Food and Drug Administration and leading aesculapian organizations besides person maintained that acetaminophen is harmless during gestation erstwhile taken arsenic directed but counsel individuals to consult their health-care supplier earlier utilizing immoderate over-the-counter drugs.

Kennedy has made autism a cardinal absorption of the HHS, pledging to "get to the bottom" of the neurodevelopmental condition's cause. He's shared unsupported claims astir autism successful the past surrounding its prevalence and its causes.

— CNBC's Annika Kim Constantino contributed reporting.