Hyping his \u201cMake America Health Again\u201d bona fides, Vice President JD Vance said that he doesn\u2019t take a \u201cuseless\u201d common medication that is used by millions of Americans. <\/p>\n
The veep\u2019s comments came at a \u201cMake American Healthy Again Summit\u201d with Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C., HuffPost reported. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m like one of these crazy people, the one way in which I\u2019m more instinctively MAHA is that if, if I have, you know, a back sprain, or I slept weird and I woke up with back pain, I don\u2019t want to take ibuprofen,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n The vice president said, \u201cI don\u2019t like taking medications. I don\u2019t like taking anything unless I absolutely have to. And I think that is another MAHA-style attitude. It\u2019s not anti-medication, it\u2019s anti-useless medication.\u201d<\/p>\n Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory sold under brand names like Advil and Motrin and taken for headaches, dental pain, muscle aches and other pain-relief needs. <\/p>\n Vance said, \u201cWe should only be taking stuff, we should only be giving our kids stuff, if it\u2019s actually necessary, safe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n USA Today reported<\/a> that Vance said that Americans should look more closely at the medications they have at home. <\/p>\n \u201cWe really do have medications that I don\u2019t think maybe they\u2019re not solving the chronic disease epidemic. Maybe, hell, some of them are causing the chronic disease epidemic,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be asking more critical questions about what we\u2019re putting in the bodies of these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n President Donald Trump earlier this year warned that the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the popular pain reliever Tylenol, is associated with an increased risk of autism.<\/p>\n The president said that pregnant women should not use Tylenol. <\/p>\n Tylenol and medical experts fired back that there is no evidence of a link between Tylenol use and autism. <\/p>\n Tylenol packaging has long warned that pregnant women should only take the product in consultation with their doctor. <\/p>\n RFK Jr. has come under fire for his controversial statements about vaccines, autism and other health issues. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyping his \u201cMake America Health Again\u201d bona fides, Vice President JD Vance said that he doesn\u2019t take a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10863,103,61,60,371,10864],"class_list":{"0":"post-140246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-topix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}