Wes Streeting has urged the public to pay no attention whatsoever to Donald Trump after his comments linking paracetamol to autism.

The Health Secretary spoke out after the US president claimed the drug “is no good” and urged pregnant women to “fight like hell” to avoid taking it.

Many medical experts have criticised the comments, calling them dangerous.

On Tuesday, Mr Streeting said “I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this”.

He told ITV’s Lorraine: “I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None.

“In fact, a major study was done back in 2024 in Sweden, involving 2.4 million children, and it did not uphold those claims.

“So I would just say to people watching, don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine. In fact, don’t take even take my word for it, as a politician – listen to British doctors, British scientists, the NHS.

“It’s really important that a time when you know there is scepticism – and I don’t think scepticism itself, asking questions is in itself a bad thing, by all means, ask questions – but we’ve got to follow medical science.”

The US president and Robert F Kennedy Jnr, his health secretary, told pregnant women to “fight like hell” to avoid taking Tylenol, a brand name for the painkiller.