Health secretary joins medical experts in urging pregnant women to ignore US president’s remarks
Wes Streeting has rejected Donald Trump’s unproven claims of a link between taking paracetamol in pregnancy and autism, urging mothers-to-be to ignore the US president’s remarks.
The health secretary challenged Trump’s statements, which medical experts have stressed are not based on evidence, as part of a drive to reassure mothers-to-be in the UK.
“I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this,” Streeting said on ITV’s Lorraine programme.
“I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None.
