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Smoking can affect the health of your baby
Over 10% of women smoke throughout their pregnancy, and some studies indicate that this percentage is 15% or more. Smoking is associated with an increased risk of premature birth and infant death. Research also suggests that infants of mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy are likely two to three times more likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies born to nonsmokers. The risk of SIDS is slightly less for infants whose mothers stopped smoking during pregnancy, even if they started smoking again after delivery.
Of the women who manage to quit smoking during pregnancy, only one out of three stay quit after a year after delivery. Babies of mothers who smoke have the lowest risk of SIDS.
Smoking during pregnancy causes at least one in five babies born with low birth weight. This is because smoking during pregnancy reduces fetal growth. This often causes babies to have health problems as a result of low birth weight. Women who stop smoking before pregnancy reduce the risk of having an underweight baby at the same level of women who never smoked. Women who quit smoking during the first three to four months of pregnancy are less likely than their low birth weight babies compared with those who continue smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
Smoking during pregnancy combined with a genetic
A study at the University of Michigan (USA) states that smoking during pregnancy combined with a genetic variation of the baby, quadruple the chances of having asthma.
Although all children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy have a high risk of childhood asthma among many other evils, the variation in a gene called IL-1RN makes them much more susceptible to the effects of snuff and its subsequent consequences.
This is the gene for the protein receptor antagonist of interleukin-1 with anti-inflammatory effect, the theory is that gene modification promotes chronic inflammation of the airways that characterize asthma.
The monitoring was conducted at 921 children from birth to 10 years, also took data on family history of asthma, allergies, maternal smoking, and so on.
An important fact is that children referred to genetic variation that were not exposed to maternal smoking had no risk for asthma. This shows that one of the worst things a mother can do for your child is smoking during pregnancy. Yourself.
Pregnancy Smoking
Smoking during pregnancy can affect baby’s brain development. Research conducted in women who smoke show maternal smoking affects the important genes that form the myelin, the fatty substance in the brain. In Embarazo10, smoking during pregnancy, new research.
If you’re pregnant and you smoke, you now have another reason to encourage you to quit. Smoking in pregnancy can affect the proper development of baby’s brain. The research was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.
The myelin deficit previously observed in adult patients with various psychiatric disorders.
In the study when rats were given nicotine during pregnancy, the children showed changes in the genes of myelin , and in certain brain regions like the limbic system involved in emotion. The most pronounced effect occurred in the prefrontal cortex. A region of the brain important for decision making.
Investigations revealed gender differences with regard to the effects of nicotine. Looks like maternal smoking affects men differently than women, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and prefrontal cortex are affected differently.
Quitting smoking is a sacrifice and an act of love for your baby and you. Many women have quit smoking in pregnancy. Talk to your doctor if you can not quit , you can help. You will see that you also get it.
Why Quit Smoking
If you smoke snuff should know that leaving would be one of the best things you can do in your life, so if you feel you have things to do in life, quitting is one of them. The snuff stain, injures and kills. If you stop smoking you will have fewer options for heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer, mouth … in general will be less likely to have an agonizing death.
In the case of women smokers with a choice of having children is clear that smoking during pregnancy harms the baby’s future life. Therefore it is important to stop smoking to prepare for a pregnancy with the tranquility of not doing harm to the child.
Stop smoking, there are many reasons for this.
The evils of snuff are many, here I leave a small gathering to help them think about quitting, harm the snuff:
- Very expensive, increasingly, the defect can reach out for € 1,000 a year or more, depend on consumption. For a pack a day for example: 3 € Package x 365 days = € 1095, not all packages cost 3 €, but it will be worth in not long. It is a very expensive habit!, Equivalent to annual leave …
- Much worse than the economic cost is the harm to health, any illness that causes snuff are endless, most of which were fatal
- It may cause many types of cancer, lung cancer, larynx, cancer of the mouth, esophagus, bladder, kidneys, pancreas and cervix, a high percentage are fatal.
- Periodontitis, gingivitis and a steady loss of taste and smell.
- It facilitates the development of emphysema, ulcers and bronchitis, as well as asthma.
- Causes colds and skin aging.
- Increases blood pressure and heart rate.
- The worsening physical condition of the person to climb two flights of stairs two persons with the same life, but a smoker and the other not, to get up the smoker will be more tired and find it harder to breathe.
-Bad breath, yellow teeth, wrinkles, skin color worse …