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  • Tylenol Just Once A Month Raises A Child’s Asthma Risk 540%

    A major study of over 20,000 children suggests that giving Tylenol even as infrequently as once per year could have a permanent, life-threatening health effect. The vast majority of babies are given Tylenol (acetaminophen) within the first six months of life. It is the go-to medicine for modern parents for the last several decades as pediatricians have recommended for almost every ailment an infant or child may suffer from. But what if the newest evidence is showing that it isn’t as safe as we were led to believe? 

    Researchers at the University of A Coruna in Spain asked the parents of 10,371 children ages 6-7 and 10,372 adolescents aged 13-14 whether their children had asthma and how often they had been given acetaminophen within the previous year and when they were babies.

    The children in the younger age group who had received the medicine only once per year were at 70% greater risk for asthma while those receiving Tylenol once a month or more were shockingly 540% more likely to have asthma.

    The study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, also found that children who had even a single dose of Tylenol before their first birthday had a 60% risk of developing asthma. In the older age group of 13 and 14 year-olds, asthma was 40 percent more likely if they had taken acetaminophen within the previous 12 months. The young teenagers were 250% more at risk if they took it once a month.

    The researchers speculated that Tylenol, called paracetamol in the UK, may reduce a potent antioxidant called glutathione in the lungs and blood, which results in damage to the lung tissue. Glutathione is produced by the body (it is a combination of three amino acids: cysteine, glycine and glutamine) and is referred to as the “mother” of all antioxidants by Dr. Mark Hyman MD.

    While Tylenol use is strongly associated with a significant increase in asthma and the effect is greater the more often the drug is taken, no causal link is yet established via randomized-controlled trials.

    Does this mean the results of this large study should be dismissed and parents should continue favoring use of the popular over the counter medication for fever and pain? Not so fast. It would certainly be the wise and cautious approach for parents to investigate alternatives to Tylenol while additional follow-up research is performed.

    • Asthma rates have been on the increase for decades at the same time Tylenol use became more widespread. The potential link cannot and should not be ignored.
    • Examination of 20,000 children establishing such a strong associative risk must be taken seriously and the dismissal of the research by some doctors is irresponsible given the seriousness and life-altering outcome of an asthma diagnosis.

    “All the asthma symptoms analyzed increased significantly with paracetamol consumption,” the researchers wrote.

    Other Autoimmune Illness Also Higher in Children Who Use Tylenol

    The associative link is even stronger when one considers that another autoimmune disease is also more prevalent in Tylenol use making the probability of inverse causation far less likely. Inverse causation would mean that children with asthma are simply more likely to pick up coughs and colds that require painkillers.

    • For example, the Spanish study also concluded that the prevalence of eczema in children increased dramatically the more frequently Tylenol was used.
    • In addition, scientists in New Zealand found in 2010 that Tylenol use before the age of 15 months was associated with a higher risk of children having allergies at the age of six.
    • Also in 2010, another large study of 11,000 children conducted by the Imperial College of London demonstrated that taking Tylenol in the first six months of life was associated with a higher prevalence of asthma and wheezing.
    • Prior to that in 2009, researchers at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute in Canada found a higher risk of asthma for both adults and children via a meta-analysis of existing research.

    Should savvy and health conscious parents wait awhile until the likely causative relationship is established?

    Definitely not!

    With such repetitive and significant associative links firmly established, taking that Children’s Tylenol and chucking it in the trash would be a really constructive action step. There is absolutely no reason to use this product when raising children anyway. I’ve personally never owned a bottle of Children’s Tylenol let alone used it anytime in the past 15 years since my first child was born. There are plenty of other non-toxic options for dealing with fevers and pain in your young ones!

    Another constructive action step? Finding a quality local pasture based farm and having your children drink unpasteurized grassfed milk. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported in August 2011 that children who drank raw milk had a 41% reduced chance of developing asthma. These same children had a nearly 50% reduction in hay fever as well even when other relevant factors were considered.

    Written by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

    About the Author

    Sarah is the founder of The Healthy Home Economist,™ which has been featured on NBC, ABC, The Huffington Post, Dr. Mercola, Infowars, Prison Planet, BabyCenter, GreenMedInfo.com, NaturalNews.com and many others. Sarah has had the honor of taking the message of Traditional Diet abroad and has been interviewed on the national TV evening news from as far away as the Philippines. For her full biography visit her website.

    Sources:

    Babies given Calpol just once a month are five times as likely to develop asthma : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21051083

    Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants

    It’s Too Soon to Blame Paracetemol for Rising Childhood Asthma Rates

    Exposure to Paracetemol and Asthma Symptoms

    The effects of early and late paracetamol exposure on asthma and atopy: a birth cohort

    Prenatal and infant acetaminophen exposure, antioxidant gene polymorphisms, and childhood asthma

    Acetaminophen use and the risk of asthma in children and adults: a systematic review and metaanalysis

    Reduce Your Child’s Asthma Risk by 41%

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    Additional Medical Study Resources: *some of these might be behind paywalls :
    https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20091105/acetaminophen-may-be-linked-to-asthma-risk

    https://www.health.com/allergy/tylenol-asthma

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21051083

  • Not-so-rare vaccine reactions, Tylenol and antibiotics

    Watch this excellent video discussing vaccine-injuries, which are frequently regarded as “normal” or “nothing to worry about”. Vaccine-injuries, contrary to popular belief, are not “rare”. These reactions occur more than many people realize.  

    As consumers and patients, we have been taught to believe that vaccines are safe and don’t cause harm. When my son was young, he experienced some of the severe reactions described in this video after receiving vaccinations. The colorful paper I was given by the nurse at the doctor’s office did not discuss what to do if these symptoms occurred, and it was never mentioned to me as something to worry about. As a result, it was many years before I made that connection. I wish I had understood this sooner.

    Pediatricians recommend Tylenol and many other over-the-counter drugs containing the active ingredient acetaminophen to “manage” fever and/or pain after vaccination. Tylenol can make matters worse as it prevents the body from detoxing and interferes with glutathione levels which allow for proper detox in the body. This inability to detox can lead to chronic health conditions including autism, as seen in this study from The Journal of International Medical Research. 

    How much more at risk are children that take acetaminophen? Well, a 2008 study led by Stephen Schultz, PhD, a dentist who holds a PhD in public health epidemiology at the University of California at San Diego reveals that children taking acetaminophen after being vaccinated for measles, rubella and mumps (the MMR vaccine) cause a child’s risk of developing autism to be eight times higher than those given ibuprofen.

    Children are also routinely given antibiotics to manage frequent infections, colds, earaches and flus. Antibiotics typically don’t solve the underlying problem and eliminate all bacteria (including friendly bacteria that is necessary for the body to fight infection). They also compromise the immune system’s ability to protect from future infections and illness.

    These three treatments – vaccines, Tylenol, or Ibuprofen and antibiotics recommended and prescribed by pediatricians, are a “perfect storm” that can cause lasting damage to your child’s health. Please do your research and learn the risks before vaccinating or use these drugs.

    What kinds of symptoms are associated with vaccine-injuries?

    Rash

    Arching back

    High fever

    Seizures

    Eczema

    Allergies

    Asthma

    Anaphylaxis

    High-pitched scream or cry

    Swelling at the vaccine site

    Interrupted or slowed breathing

    Itching or numbness in extremities

    Disruption of facial or eye symmetry

    Bacterial or viral infections (can be recurring or ongoing)

    Behavior and mood changes, aggression, attention or focus deficit

    Loss of communication (eye contact and speech, and most any kind of response)

    Gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, bloating, constipation, pain

    For more information, check out this post from Modern Alternative Health. 

    Is there any compensation for those who are vaccine-injured?

    Back in the 1980s, the whooping cough vaccine in the DPT shot was responsible for brain inflammation and death in many children. The live oral polio vaccine was also crippling children and adults due to the vaccine-strain engineered polio included in this combination. U.S. citizens were pressing charges against pharmaceutical companies to make them accountable for the safety of their products.

    In 1982, four drug companies (Merck, Wyeth, Lederle, Connaught) threatened to discontinue manufacturing vaccines in America unless a law was passed to protect these corporations from prosecution. The federal government then set up a compensation system for plaintiffs, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986.

    In the 2011, the pharmaceutical companies were granted complete immunity from lawsuit by the U.S. federal government. Compensation for court cases, then, doesn’t come from the government nor the pharmaceutical companies. It comes from taxpayer dollars – people like you and me.  

    For more information, visit the National Vaccine Information Center.

  • STOP Giving Your Child Tylenol!

    HFI: Tylenol. It’s in every medicine cabinet, recommended by doctors and ‘doctor grandma’. But the truth is … it’s bad. Really really bad. You should throw it out, run away from anyone who says you should use it, and never look back. It has a black box warning – one of the strongest warning given by the FDA. Its been shown to cause irreversable neurological damage in some children and can trigger serious reactions after typical childhood illnesses.

    Tylenol Makes Big Money and Can Cause Big Side Effects

    Tylenol (Acetaminophen) hit the scene in 1955 as a “prescription only” pain reliever, was making bank just a few years later, was acquired by Johnson and Johnson in 1959, and was available over the counter within a year after that. Tylenol has been a hugely successful product, making its billions off of parents who give it to their kids post-vaccine, post-nasal drip, during a cold, and for serious things like hang nail pains and 99 degree “send me over the edge” fevers.

    Tylenol Doesn’t Do What You Think it Does

    If you’re giving your child Tylenol for pain, a fever, or worse … giving it preemptively (prior to a procedure or vaccinations), you should know that it doesn’t do what you think it does. Tylenol doesn’t reduce pain, is a neurotoxic endocrine disruptor, is harmful to a developing fetus, and is even more harmful to babies and small children whose bodies’ can’t clear the drug.

    A 2008 study conducted by an epidemiologist showed that children who were given Tylenol after their MMR vaccine developed autism eight times as often as children given ibuprofen. In another study, males who were uncircumcised (and thus, were not given pain-relieving Tylenol), had a five times lower risk of autism. The studies go on and on.

    Tylenol is hazardous – They Have Known It For 40 years

    Now might not be the best time to tell you that Tylenol has a “black box warning” (the FDA’s strongest drug label warning) and contains the following ingredients:

    Carboxymethylcellulose sodium (a thickening agent), carrageenan (associated with cancer and gastrointestinal disease), citric acid, flavor, glycerin, hydroxyethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, propylene glycol (a common ingredient in antifreeze that could be neurotoxic), propylparaben (a hazardous substance and endocrine disruptor), purified water, sodium benzoate, sorbitol solution, sucralose, and of course – acetaminophen.

    Don’t be fooled, the FDA is completely aware of the dangers associated acetaminophen. They promised to implement safety measures and dosage restrictions, warnings, and safety measures to protect consumers from the harms of Tylenol way back when, but never followed through.

     It’s been 40 years and they haven’t done a thing. Tylenol makes way too much money and you know about the FDA’s impressive ability to write-off children damaged by billion dollar industries.

    It’s not the 90s anymore and we can’t pretend that Tylenol is safe. We have to protect our children when those who are supposed to put the safeguards in place, don’t. That’s why we should probably stop giving our kids Tylenol.

    Portions of this article originally appeared at: http://www.livingwhole.org/why-you-should-stop-giving-your-kids-tylenol/.