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Painkillers Behind Increase In Male Reproductive Disorders

 Painkillers taken by pregnant women may expose their unborn child at risk of infertility, the researchers said.

Prolonged use of drugs such as acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen can affect the development of "male sexual organs.

About half of women taking prescription analgesics, during pregnancy, usually headaches, according to the journal Human Reproduction.

But the use of these medications may increase the risk of boys have undescended testicles that can lead to poor sperm quality and testicular cancer later in life.

Researchers believe that the painkiller may be behind the increase in male reproductive disorders in recent decades, with fetal exposure to chemicals known as endocrine disruptors or endocrine disrupters.

Women who use more than one type of analgesic at the same time at any time during pregnancy increases the risk seven times, according to the study. But the most vulnerable time is when a woman is four to six months pregnant.

Meanwhile, the pain medication during a doubled overall risk compared to women who do not eat them. Paracetamol doubled the risk, while ibuprofen or aspirin has increased four times.

And with two painkillers together during this period increased the risk 16 times, according to the study. Henrik Leffers, senior researcher at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, who led the research, said analgesics act as hormone disrupters, the intensification of low level exposure to environmental chemicals in womb.

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