In this article, Dr David Kristensen and colleagues from Copenhagen University Hospital, review the findings from three individual rodent studies that evaluated the effects of
paracetamol taken during pregnancy on the development of the reproductive system in female offspring.
Not exact matches
«We also found that a large number of women thought that
taking paracetamol during pregnancy was risky and would avoid it.
Taking paracetamol during pregnancy may impair the future fertility of female offspring, according to a review published in Endocrine Connections.
In these reviewed studies, rodents given
paracetamol during pregnancy, at doses equivalent to those that a pregnant woman may
take for pain relief, produced female offspring with fewer eggs.
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Taking paracetamol during pregnancy may reduce fertility of daughters.»
Women who
take mild painkillers such as aspirin and
paracetamol during pregnancy are slightly more likely to have boys with undescended testicles, a study from Denmark has reported.
The researchers identified which women
took paracetamol, aspirin or ibuprofen for pain relief
during pregnancy, and investigated whether this raised the likelihood that their sons would have undescended testicles at birth, a condition called cryptorchidism.
Leffers's results also mirror those in a second Danish study published this month, which found that
taking paracetamol during pregnancy multiplied the risk of cryptorchidism by 1.33.