Welcome to Wellness Sun Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown on this gloomy Halloween here in the Northeast. I'm not sure what it's like where you are, but here it's quite gloomy. Something really interesting happened this week, and I use the term interesting lightly. One of my kiddos was homesick. Now, mind you, I don't have small babies. I have school-age

kids and an older child. But one of my school-age kids was homesick, and he had a fever. And mind

you, low-grade fevers, I don't treat. Obviously, that is the body's natural way of fighting

infection and inflammation. I think it's a good thing. However, as a mother, any moms out

there knows we always get a little nervous at nighttime in case that high fever creeps in.

As a mother, as a physician, and for all three of my children, I've always alternated, you know,

a Tylenol and a motrin-like product when they have high fever. That's kind of what we do.

All of a sudden, I found myself pausing saying, should I be giving my child Tylenol? And why am I making

that pause? Well, we've heard President Trump now in press conferences and also by posting on social media, not once, not twice,

but several times saying not only should pregnant women not take Tylenol because it may

affect the developing fetus, but he's also said, moms, don't give your kids Tylenol.

And the problem that I have with this statement is, President Trump doesn't

just make things up out of thin air. Someone obviously told him something. And that person had to have

been referencing some sort of data. I would like to know what is the data that was presented in that meeting that gave President

Trump the idea that mothers should not be giving Tylenol to their kids? I think it is really

irresponsible for this administration to make comments and then not also be wholly transparent

about the data that backs up those comments.

President Trump may be right, but we wouldn't know because they haven't shared with us

how they came to that conclusion. I found it very frustrating. I decided to post about it on

X about my frustrations. And let me tell you, well, I had some people applauding and agreeing with my

frustrations. The majority of people took my frustration as criticism of the president. And the

reality is it's not criticizing the president. It's actually saying, I believe him when he says

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