0 Smoking When Pregnant

Smoking when pregnant harms your baby seriously. To emphasize the prohibition of smoking during pregnancy, is a study in `Ankara University School of Medicine, which found that women who smoke pass on their unborn children a small amount of vitamin E and other antioxidants than their mothers tabagiste.
That toxic substances in tobacco smoke that the mother made directly through the vessels of the umbilical cord of the child already is known in the scientific community. And, yes, you know that nicotine leads to a reduction of blood flow to the `uterus and placenta, and thus a lower supply of nutrients to the fetus.
Ankara scientists now have a step further. The analysis of blood samples from the day of birth of a sample of 20 women who smoke, and 20 Non smoking, the researchers initially observed the concentration of antioxidants in the blood of the "mothers nicotine", is lower compared to mothers without the habit of smoking.

This difference was then compared to the health of children, after seven days of birth. It is at this point that the `unexpected result out: they were found to be the level of antioxidants in the urine of infants and breast milk of smoking mothers is much lower than those of mothers who grew up in the bosom of your own little away from nicotine.

Especially the scientists explain, smoking during pregnancy can lead to a reduction in the concentrations of vitamin E in human milk. It is a molecule that is an important antioxidant effect can also ask `the baby against the risk of cancer does protect. Besides running the greatest risk of asthma, are babies of mothers who smoke are less well protected against cancer.
Despite education campaigns about the dangers of smoking during pregnancy, according to the Italian League for the Fight against Cancer (Lilt), about 38% of Italian women continue to smoke during pregnancy. In fact, had to smoke even though six of the ten mothers, limited to about 30% of the daily amount of cigarettes to more than 7% is to reduce smoking the same number to the period before pregnancy.