Paracetamol is widely used to reduce pain or fever in Pregnancy too and its use in pregnancy may bring some change to the female newborn child, such study needs further studies too for a firm conviction but still gives us a new guideline to use paracetamol in pregnancy cautiously. Women who consume paracetamol during pregnancy, widely used to reduce a high fever or relieve pain, may increase the risk of damaging the fertility of their daughters, warns a new study. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland found that human ovaries exposed to paracetamol for a week in laboratories lost up to 40 percent of their egg cells.
If this effect occurs in the womb, it could mean baby girls exposed to the common drug end up being born with fewer eggs. This would give them fewer years in which they could become pregnant and lead to an early menopause, the Daily Mail quoted the…
