Pregnancy and Smoking
Smoking pregnancy, better safe than sorry
For many years we know that the lifestyle of a pregnant woman with pregnancy greatly influences healthy baby and a healthy pregnancy.
If smoking is present during pregnancy are at increased risk of spontaneous abortion and perinatal mortality is an index that counts the numbers of deaths of fetuses and newborns following a reproductive process unhealthy or unhealthy pregnancy.
The smoking during pregnancy risks women’s health and being in gestation and that inhaling cigarette smoke alter the environment in which that being is developed.
It is proven that children of women with smoking not deserted him during pregnancy are more likely to suffer sudden death, and in less severe cases, acute respiratory diseases.
Concrete scientific data say the children of women with smoking not deserted him during the pregnancy experience different situations: Read the rest of this entry »
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Pregnancy and smoking
For many years it is known that the effects of snuff on pregnant women produces a greater risk of abortion or increased perinatal mortality, so it has been shown that children of women in gestational period who habitually snuff, are at risk of being born with less weight than normal.
Keep in mind that the fetus receives any component that the mother has in her body, therefore if the mother smokes, the fetus will be exposed to dozens of poisonous elements in the smoke of snuff and for this reason it is especially recommended for a woman during pregnancy quit.
Quitting the best decision
During pregnancy it is always advised quitting smoking, but ultimately the mother who decides to abandon this habit or not. However, it will raise this issue very seriously, as it seriously compromises the health of the baby. For this reason, pregnancy is a perfect occasion to consider quit smoking since the gestation period (approximately nine months), the addictive components of snuff have disappeared completely from the body and is much easier not to relapse.
Possible damage to fetus
Babies born to smoking mothers are exposed to several risks:
There is more risk of being born prematurely or weighing too low. This can cause future complications. They usually weigh an average 200 grams less than the average. Are almost double risk of death from sudden infant. It has shown a direct relationship between this and the smoking of the father or mother.
They are more likely to suffer diseases common during the first years of life.Worldwide, more doctor visits and must be hospitalized more frequently than children of nonsmoking parents.
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Alcohol and pregnancy
Is it harmful to drink alcohol during pregnancy?
It is known that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have harmful effects on the baby.Children of mothers who drink in large quantities may have what is called fetal alcohol syndrome, a picture is associated with malformations of various organs and mental retardation.Usually this syndrome occurs in mothers with a history of alcohol before conception and continuing this harmful habit during pregnancy.
In addition, the nutrition of the alcoholic is often affected by the shortage of essential nutrients that may play a role in these cases, the lack of some minerals like zinc, increasing the risks in the developing baby.
How much alcohol is harmful to the baby?
Nobody knows for sure what is the amount of alcohol you should eat for the baby may be affected, because people do not metabolize alcohol the same way.But it is known that the greater the amount of alcohol consumed during pregnancy, the greater the harmful effects on the baby.
Occasional intake of wine or spirits can hardly affect the baby, however it is recommended to all pregnant women abstain from alcohol throughout pregnancy.
Still if you choose to drink alcohol during pregnancy we recommend that you avoid drinking every day and leave only their consumption for a celebration occasional drinking only a glass and preferably after the third trimester.
What if I drank alcohol before learning she was pregnant?
There are no studies showing that eating a few drinks over a short period of time in the early stages of pregnancy can affect the baby, but there are no studies that prove otherwise.
However, do not worry if you drink a few drinks before you knew you were pregnant.Many women went through this in unplanned pregnancies and nothing happened bad.
Anyway it is recommended as prevention, stop drinking from the moment you find out you’re pregnant and optimize all your habits and customs.
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Chemicals and Pregnancy
Are they harmful cleaning products for the home?
All pregnant women at some point comes into contact with chemicals that are used for household cleaning. There are some rules you should follow it.
No serious studies showing that the accidental inhalation of any of these substances can affect the development of your baby, but neither is regarding the use or inhalation of chemical cleaning products repeatedly and continuously.For this reason try to be very prudent in their use and let your “nose” be your guide.
What should I consider when using these products?
Here are some tips to consider:
• When products have a strong odor or steaming, use them only in ventilated places.
• Try to avoid using aerosol spray equipment.
• If you perform yard work or farm labor, you should stay away from chemicals and pesticides or insecticides that have several harmful toxic.
• Never mix ammonia with bleach, detergent with bleach or even as this mixture causes the formation of toxic gases and inhalation is dangerous.
• Do not use liquid kitchen oven cleaners or cleaning solvents.
• Always use latex gloves to avoid contact with the skin of potentially toxic substances.
• With insect repellents used on the skin only those recommended for children.
Remember that you are responsible for preserving the health of children you have in your belly.
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Smoking in pregnancy and disorders in children
Verification of a causal relationship between smoking during pregnancy and conduct disorder in children would implement prevention strategies to alleviate the patient and his family and society in general.
Young people are considered to have conduct disorders if they embark on a frequent and persistent in a variety of serious antisocial behavior.
Conduct disorder is distinguished from common criminal behavior in a variety of antisocial behaviors and in its severity, persistence and precocity.
The authors explain that because conduct disorder is a severe problem for young people affected, their families and society as a whole, and as usual that is refractory to treatment, research into the causes and subsequent prevention must be a priority.
In this study, the possibility that smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for behavioral disorders in the offspring.
It is estimated that at least 20% to 25% of pregnant women smoke despite the fact that this habit is associated, among other diseases, low birth weight, prematurity and infant mortality.
It is believed that the mechanism is via fetal hypoxia caused by decreased uteroplacental blood flow caused by nicotine and the increase in fetal blood carboxyhemoglobin.
In addition, there is evidence that nicotine is a neurobehavioral teratogen.
Nicotine crosses the placenta and has different effects on the developing fetus. in some preclinical studies suggest that smoking during pregnancy causes changes in neuronal function of the offspring, including decreased serotonin uptake, alterations in dopaminergic systems and peripheral and central neurons, inhibition of cell growth cholinergic rat brains and brain changes in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Read the rest of this entry »
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Preventing smoking and pregnancy
Snuff consumption coinciding with pregnancy, is now recognized as a risk factor for the course of pregnancy, childbirth and the newborn
Studies of prevalence of snuff consumption among pregnant women conducted abroad show different results to our environment.In the Nordic countries or the United States of America women confirmed their pregnancy to exceed 30%, while in Spain smoke more than 50% at the beginning of her pregnancy.
Pregnant women who smoke tend to be young and with studies that do not exceed the basic general education.This supports the trend has been observed in our country with the highest cigarette smoking among adolescents and young women.
The severe effects of maternal smoking on the fetus and newborn, make women of childbearing age one group on that should influence a matter of priority measures aimed at preventing smoking.Health education in schools and the community should raise and educate girls and young women about the negative consequences of first use of snuff and other drugs during pregnancy and do not promote smoking initiation or cessation in the case of these harmful habits.
Visits to the Gynecologist’s consultation center or family planning should include appropriate information and motivation to get to abandonment.
Motivation is a key factor in smoking cessation and pregnancy can also be an event or impulse to strengthen this intention to quit.Pregnancy is often the determining factor to consider abandoning the snuff in the first quarter by these women to confirm the pregnancy.
All pregnant women should be informed about the negative effects that cause snuff in her unborn child if they stay with smoking during pregnancy and encourage them to make a serious attempt to quit.
Women who are in their first pregnancy, quit smoking at a higher rate, probably, the motivation here is more intense due to the illusion which gives them the arrival of their first child.
Other factors with evidence of being good predictors of cessation of snuff, as the number of cigarettes smoked, with those most consumed the least able quit.
In any case, has been the health of the unborn child is an important motivation to try to quit smoking in pregnant women.Many women would be unable to try and abandon their habit hard to preserve their health but the confirmation of pregnancy if your situation who are more prone to leave and often get it especially if they get help from your doctor or nurse.
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Smoking when pregnant harms grandchildren
Smoking during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on women and the fetus, but perhaps also for their future offspring. Specifically, for the grandchildren of the smoker, as revealed by the first analysis of the risks of trans cigarettes was carried out in Spain.
Snuff that is involved in a high percentage of tumors that are diagnosed in adulthood is beyond doubt. However, the role of nicotine in pediatric cancer is more controversial. To investigate this issue, a group of researchers from the Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Virgen de la Arrixaca and Hospital of Madrid, the capital, have for years made an analysis on the influence of exposure to snuff over three generations .
The study, published in April in the journal ‘Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health’ , evaluated data from 128 children with cancer born between 2001 and 2005 and as many healthy children as control group were compared. The researchers, led by Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega, the Environmental Health Unit Pediatric carefully collected data on the consumption of snuff from their mothers and grandmothers , and other environmental factors could be involved in its diagnosis.
“It’s the first time in humans, studies of childhood cancer, wondered if the grandmothers or grandfathers smoked and the degree of exposure during pregnancy grandmothers,” explains Dr. ELMUNDO.es Ortega, “there are studies in experimental animals and so we jump. “
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The Smoking During Pregnancy
Smoking is a major public health problem. All smokers are at increased risk for lung cancer, other lung diseases, cardiovascular problems and other health problems. Smoking during pregnancy can endanger the health of the woman and her unborn baby. Currently, at least 10 percent of women in the U.S. smoke during pregnancy 1.
18 percent of women in the United States and other industrialized countries smoke 2. In developing countries is about 8 percent. Many of these women smoke while pregnant.
The statistics on what happens in the U.S. are strong. If all pregnant women stopped smoking in the United States, the number of stillbirths would drop by 11 percent and the number of deaths of newborn babies in a 5For percent, according to estimates by the Public Health Service of the United United 1 . Currently in the United States, at least 11 percent of women smoke during pregnancy. 2
Cigarette smoke contains over 2,500 chemicals. No one knows for sure what harm the developing baby, but it is believed that both nicotine and carbon monoxide can cause the pregnancy does not have the desired result.
What causes smoke damage in the newborn?
Smoking nearly doubles the risk of low birth weight baby. In the United States in 2002, 12.2 percent of babies born to smoking mothers with low birth weight (less than 5.5 libras/2.5 kg) compared with 7.5 percent of babies born to nonsmoking mothers. 2 The low weight birth may result from insufficient development of the baby in the womb, premature delivery, or both. It has long been known that smoking slows fetal growth, and studies suggest it also increases the risk of preterm delivery (before 37 weeks gestation). Premature and low birthweight are at higher risk for serious health problems during the first months of life, permanent disability (including cerebral palsy, mental retardation and learning problems) and even death.
The more a pregnant woman smokes, the greater the risk to the baby of low birth weight. Also, if you quit at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, have virtually the same chances that your baby is born with low weight a woman who never smoked. Even if she fails to quit in the first or second trimester, if at all during the third the baby’s development can be improved.
A recent study suggests that women who smoke at any time from the month before pregnancy to the end of the first quarter are more likely to have a baby with birth defects, particularly congenital heart defects 6 . The risk of heart defects seems to increase with the number of cigarettes a woman smokes.
Can smoking cause pregnancy complications? Read the rest of this entry »
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Quitting smoking during pregnancy
Although you tried before without success, this time you can achieve. Approximately 40 percent of smokers who try during pregnancy, get it (a much higher success rate than women who are not pregnant). Yet, many continue their habit, which increases the risk of having a premature delivery, the baby is born with low birth weight or other complications arise, such as vaginal bleeding and spontaneous abortions .
What differentiates you stop those who continue smoking? In general, pregnant women who quit smoking are not necessarily stronger or smarter. Nor does it mean they want more babies. The difference is simply that adopt better strategies to achieve their goal. Each person is different and what one serves, perhaps another will not fare so well, but there are several smoking cessation techniques that stand out for their effectiveness. BabyCenter offers you these five strategies to quit snuff. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dangers of smoking for women
As discussed earlier smoking is bad for your health and generates no reason to quit. In women, the cigar presents additional problems. In women, smoking can cause:
1 – Premature Menopause
2 – Increased risk of hip fracture
3 – worse health problems of diabetes
4 – Reduces fertility is harder to get pregnant
5 – In Beauty: smokers show signs of faster vejes looks dull skin, wrinkles faster, there are wrinkles around the mouth and stains your teeth, fingers and nails.
Problems with pregnancy
Pregnant women who smoke have more risk of:
1 – Placenta previa.
2 – Abruptio placentae. This can cause premature birth, stillbirth, and infant death.
3 – Premature birth of the baby.
4 – A baby of low birth weight.
5 – Damage to the developing baby’s lungs.