It is clear that during pregnancy, the farther from the smoke, the better. Not only does the woman have to avoid smoking at this stage, but she also doesn't have to smoke with her. The health of pregnancy and the fetus is affected when the woman sucks tobacco smoke and at birth your baby will also suffer the consequences.
New research published in the 'European Respiratory Journal' highlights the relationship between the passive smoking of the pregnant woman and respiratory problems in her babies, a risk directly proportional to the amount of smoke sucked by the mother.
The study has been conducted by the Environmental Epidemiology Research Center (CREAL) and examined the association between maternal passive smoking during pregnancy and wheezing in children under two years, with data from about 28,000 couples of mothers and children .
It shows that the increase in risk of the baby suffering from respiratory problems It depends on the amount of smoke inhaled and the time in which exposure occurs during pregnancy (including, before and after pregnancy). Therefore, when it comes to quitting smoking during pregnancy, it is better late than never:
- Children whose mothers were exposed to smoke were 11% more likely to develop such respiratory problems.
- If children were also passively exposed to tobacco also after childbirth, the risk of wheezing is increased by 29%.
- Risks reach 74% when mothers were active smokers before pregnancy and also the child received passive exposure to smoke after birth.
Also the fact that the baby had a family history of asthma influenced his greater chances of having respiratory problems.
These are very strong figures and perhaps that is why I get the impression that the population is currently much more aware of the risks of tobacco and it is no longer as usual as years ago to see pregnant women smoke or that other people do with them. However, to avoid all risks there is still a way to go.
Among the measures that could contribute to this is good prenatal information or the facilitation of help in the most serious cases, of those women who cannot leave the habit, the intervention in the family environment to prevent others from smoking with the pregnant woman or the baby ...
Do you know cases of women who have continued smoking during pregnancy? Surely what you do know are cases in which pregnant women have breathed that smoke passively, something that as we see also directly affects the health of the baby and that therefore it is necessary to avoid at all costs.
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