Sunday, March 17, 2013

Dangers of smoking on baby


The figures tell us that 45% of women smokers aged 20-35 years is the age of marriage and pregnancy and lactation and reproduction! In contrast, a scientific fact confirms that: 35% of the children of smokers pregnant less intelligence than others, and develop a degree of mental retardation and other problems.



Hence the importance of studies, issued by the "Maternal and Child Health" at Ain Shams Specialized Hospital about the dangers of smoking on the fetus and pregnant or breastfeeding for the baby, and was supervised by a specialized group of professors of pediatrics and psychology and sociology. By answering mothers questions.

intensive therapy 

Q. Are infant and child influenced by what is known as passive smoking?

Babies breathe at a faster rate, so constantly develop medical problems may intervening intensive care rooms, and smoking in front of them, they can inhale about -102 pack of cigarettes - up to the age of five.


Smokers pregnant
Q. To what extent does women's addiction of smoking on the fetus time of conception?

1- Addiction lead to injuries to the fetus, and may continue until after the birth, and cause intrauterine growth inhibition, and the incidence of deformities and bleeding in the brain, and eye injuries.

2- Percentage of fertilization to less than 50% as a result of abuse of the process of storing  oocytes. That the negative impact of nicotine.

3- Anticipating abortion during the first two months of pregnancy, or drop the fetus frequently, and many times ectopic pregnancy occurs, and double this by the amount of cigarettes that you take smoked per day.

4- Premature birth or early placental abruption, as double placental hematoma behind more than twice.

5- Along with delays in the growth of the fetus inside the uterus, and that 11% of fetal death due to smoking.

Degree of adaptation
Q. Is there a risk during the situation?

Increases fetal mortality before childbirth, as less able adapt newborn with the environment then, and decreases weight proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked per day, and there respiratory diseases such as: asthma, skin infections, infections ear central, in addition to decreased intelligence capacities of the child and the difficulties in the process of conservation, with overgrowth in the movement, and quarrelsome and behavioral disorder.

Smoke continues
Q. What happens if the mother continues to smoke after childbirth?

Smoke moves through the channels feeding, causing the infant lethargy, sleep excessive, asthenia with a weak ability to breast, and the milk reduces substantially to 690 instead of 960 toxic substances "nicotine" in  smoke through milk, affects the respiratory system of the infant .becoming more and has a ratio of respiratory diseases; cough, asthma and bronchial infections and throat

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