Babies are more likely to suffer cerebral palsy if their mother took aspirin during pregnancy, a study suggests.
Newborns were almost two-and-a-half times more likely to have the incurable condition, which is caused by a brain injury and leads to life-long problems with speech and movement.
And those whose mothers took paracetamol while pregnant were up to 50 per cent more likely to have the condition, the study of more than 180,000 women found. But no link was discovered with ibuprofen.
The scientists insist their findings do not prove the drugs are directly responsible for causing cerebral palsy, but that they had simply found a link and more research is therefore needed.
