SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After President Trump claimed today that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, local autism experts spoke to ABC4 about the science and the importance of consulting your healthcare providers.

During a press conference at the White House Monday, Trump said that women should not take acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) during their pregnancy, suggesting that it can cause autism.

Amanda Bakian, Associate Professory of Psychiatry at the University of Utah told ABC4 that learning the cause of autism is much more complicated than a single cause.

"Given how heterogeneous the presentation of autism is, that it can look so different from one person to another, really, we understand that the causality of autism, what causes autism, there's probably many, many, many, m

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