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/sadi89 Feb 22 '25

There is more and more evidence showing a strong correlation between adhd and hypermobility. Hypermobility can be a cause of chronic muscular skeletal pain. Pregnancy also causes hypermobility, which for someone with baseline hypermobility throws everything out of whack.

This is all just armchair theory

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u/pvrhye Feb 22 '25

Anecdotally, I am pretty sure I have ADHD and I can lock my hands behind my back and spin them all the way around my head and knees like a jumprope. I was always exceptionally flexible.