r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 21 '25

Neuroscience The risk of developing ADHD was 3 times higher among children whose mothers used the pain-relief drug acetaminophen (paracetamol) during pregnancy. The association was stronger among daughters, with the daughters of acetaminophen-exposed mothers showing a 6.16 times higher likelihood of ADHD.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/child-adhd-risk-linked-to-mothers-use-of-acetaminophen
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u/Venvut Feb 21 '25

Weird, I feel the opposite. I'm also a woman with ADHD and seem to have a pretty high pain tolerance. I bump into things and scrape myself up 24/7 since I'm always moving around without paying attention to things. I don't get headaches and am healthy as a horse otherwise. I am VERY much the hyper in ADHD.

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u/mattcraiganon Feb 22 '25

Which is precisely why we don't really care about anecdote in science. There's nothing weird about this, you don't have to fit the pattern.

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u/Ginkachuuuuu Feb 21 '25

Oh I'm constantly covered in mystery bruises and scrapes!