Australia’s peak body for obstetricians and gynaecologists fears pregnant women will not take paracetamol when they need it and suffer harm from unmanaged fever after the Trump administration made unfounded claims linking it to autism.

They encouraged women to talk to their doctor rather than rely on the White House announcement on Tuesday, which they described as “not a no-harm scenario”.

The comments came as Australia’s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, reconfirmed that the drug is safe for use in pregnancy and rejected the link to neurodevelopmental conditions.

On Tuesday morning the US president, Donald Trump, claimed that pregnant women should limit their use of paracetamol , usually branded as Tylenol in the US, which he said heightens the chance of auti

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