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/sturmeh Feb 22 '25

You can't test for ADHD, you can only ask if they've been diagnosed, and they may have it if they haven't.

If someone doesn't want to be diagnosed as an adult they're not being diagnosed against their will, so it can't really be "tested for".

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u/arvada14 Feb 22 '25

You can't test for ADHD

I'm talking about diagnosing the mothers. Or using a national registry that can match adhd mothers and their non adhd counterparts and ask them for Tylenol use information.

someone doesn't want to be diagnosed as an adult they're not being diagnosed against their will,

This is an idiotic statement, no is advocating to force women to be diagnosed.

And of course, by "testing," I'm using it colloquially and also acknowledging the fact that neuropsychological tests are used to assess adhd prevelance.

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u/sturmeh Feb 22 '25

This is an idiotic statement, no is advocating to force women to be diagnosed.

You're in a Science subreddit, when you say "test" you mean determine whether or not the subject has said condition, based on evidence.

Please keep politics out of the discussion.

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u/arvada14 Feb 22 '25

You're in a Science subreddit, when you say "test" you mean determine whether or not the subject has said condition, based on evidence.

This would still be concordant based on what happens In an ADHD diagnosis. Evidence from your life, testimony from your parents and teachers are all used to make an adhd diagnosis. On top of actual neuropsych tests.

You argued yourself into a corner and don't have the ability to make a cogent argument out of it.

This is why pedantry to make people think you're smart usually ends up back firing.

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u/sturmeh Feb 22 '25

I guess the answer to your question must be that the scientists that authored this publication must be really unintelligent unlike you and they didn't think of it.

Sorry for giving you an answer.