{"id":8845,"date":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-autism-fever-pregnant-autism-risk-factor\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:00:00","slug":"condition-autism-fever-pregnant-autism-risk-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-autism-fever-pregnant-autism-risk-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Running a Fever During Pregnancy May Raise Child's Risk of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"
Running a fever during pregnancy—particularly during the second trimester—is linked to an increased risk of autism in children, according to a new study. Treating fevers with acetaminophen (best known as Tylenol) may be somewhat protective, say the authors, although they stress that more research is needed in this area.<\/p>\n
Autism has previously been tied to prenatal exposure to a wide range of infections, researchers at Columbia University wrote in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Because fever is such a common response to infections and illness, they wanted to see whether high temperatures during pregnancy<\/a>—and attempts to lower those temperatures with medication—seemed to play a role in a child’s likelihood of being diagnosed years later.<\/p>\n So the researchers studied nearly 100,000 mothers and their children born between 1999 and 2009 in Norway. About 16% of the women reported having at least one fever during their pregnancies, a rate that’s similar to estimates in the United States. Between ages 3 and 7, the children were screened for autism spectrum disorder, and 583 were diagnosed.<\/p>\n <\/span>