Could Tylenol Be Causing Asthma?

A new study performed on more than 1,000 Ethiopian babies over three years has found a link between Tylenol and asthma.

Those babies given acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol during their first year of life were fount to be 7 times more likely to develop asthma by the time they reached their third birthday.

Tylenol is just one product on the market used to ease pain that has acetaminophen as an active ingredient, meaning that many other products on the market could also be causing health risk to children.

Previous studies have stated that as many as 4 in 10 cases of asthma in the US in teens are caused from acetaminophen use but this is the first study to find a link in young babies.

“We have confirmed that acetaminophen use comes first, so a causal link is increasingly likely,” said Dr. Alemayehu Amberbir, of Addis Ababa University.

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