Analgesics During Pregnancy and Undescended Testicles
TS-SI
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:00
http://ts-si.org/healthcare/27784-analgesics-during-pregnancy-and-undescended-testicles (http://ts-si.org/healthcare/27784-analgesics-during-pregnancy-and-undescended-testicles)
New evidence shows that women who took a combination of more than one mild analgesic during pregnancy, or who took the painkillers during the second trimester of pregnancy, had an increased risk of giving birth to sons with undescended testicles (cryptorchidism) — a condition that is known to be a risk factor for poor semen quality and testicular germ cell cancer in later life.
if this research had any truth in it then undescended testicle would be extremely common among older UK males as until perhaps 30 years ago aspirin was the most common analgesic for everyone. So statistically a great many women getting a headache or other pain or ache during pregnancy would be reaching for aspirin or aspirin based painkillers and producing large numbers of boy babies with undeescended testicles but in fact the incidence is quite low.