Doctor Tears Trump’s Wild Tylenol, Medical Advice To Shreds In Fact Check: ‘Completely Erroneous and Dangerous’
MSNBC medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta hit President Donald Trump with a lengthy fact check after Trump offered medical advice on Truth Social about taking Tylenol and more.
Gupta joined Ana Cabrera on Friday shortly after the president cautioned people against using Tylenol, as well as offering vaccine advice.
Trump wrote:
Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS [Sic] B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT
Gupta called Trump’s concerns about Tylenol “not substantiated,” pointing to clinical research showing that taking Tylenol does not increase risk of autism in children.
The doctor went on to scratch his head over Trump’s recommendation about splitting up vaccines.
Gupta said:
I’m reading his post as we speak, “break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots, not mixed, exclamation point,” is what he put out there. You know, I’m not sure who’s advising him, but those three shots, measles, mumps, rubella, that’s what constitutes MMR, that vaccine.
That did not exist as monovalent vaccines. What does that mean? There is no single measles shot. There’s no singles mumps shot. There’s no single shot for rubella. It’s a trivalent three in one vaccine. That’s what exists and you get them twice. Once between say 12 to 15 months of age and once between four and six years of age. But there is no sort of three separate shots here. So I don’t know what he’s talking about. And “take the chicken pea shot separately.”
I think he’s referencing varicella. And that is something that, you know, of all the things he just put out there in this tweet, that’s something that the advisory committee on immunization practices looked at. Every credible medical body does recommend that you can split the MMR shot and the varicella shot between 12 and 15 months of age. You can split them. So you can get, the recommendation is actually to take the varicella shot, i.e. the chicken pea shot, separately from the MMR shot. And that’s absolutely okay. And that was the recommendation prior to Trump being in office.
Gupta went on to call Trump’s words on hepatitis B “erroneous” and “dangerous.”
He said:
For all our viewers out there, saying that you should take the hepatitis B shot at 12 years of age when currently it’s recommended in the first 24 hours of life is a dramatic departure from just common sense medical knowledge. There’s a reason we do this, Ana, that we recommended at birth because there’s unfortunately a lot of babies, despite efforts at screening mom, still get exposed to hepatitis B, which can cause chronic liver disease if a baby gets exposed to it during birth or in their very first moments of life. 90% of babies that get exposed to hepatitis B through blood-borne transmission.
It’s a sexual transmission that can happen, IV drug use, blood-borne transmission as well. That’s commonly misunderstood based on what we’re seeing on the internet. Just the act of birth can expose a baby if mom is positive for hepatitis B to this virus or to this infection. And what does that predispose you to, to chronic liver disease? So you have to get the birth dose because this 12 years of age guidance is completely erroneous and dangerous.
Watch above via MSNBC.
