Babies and Parents

Babies and young children who grow up in a smoky environment, in fact, begin at a young age smoking. This can affect their health, both short and long term. Tobacco smoke inhalation is being very harmful. This applies to young children much more than adults because their airways are finely constructed and therefore more damaged.

What exactly happens if your baby still receives tobacco smoke? Below are the harmful effects of smoke air:

* Increased risk of otitis
The probability of middle ear infection increases if your child regularly resides in a smoky environment. Research shows that 15% of cases of otitis media in children from one to seven years is caused by their parents smoke.

In addition, children of smoking parents are more likely to fluid behind the eardrum, where they suffer constant love. If your child suffers from this disorder, should be put tubes in his ears. It showed that one third of these chronic middle ear infections can be prevented if no longer in the presence of children smoking.

* Increased risk of respiratory infections
The inhalation of tobacco smoke has a bad influence on the growth and functioning of the lungs of your child. It reduces the absorption of oxygen and makes your baby more susceptible to inflammation of the airways. This reduces the chance that your child gets bronchitis larger than normal. Children who smoke are much in, have also frequently suffer from shortness of breath and coughing up phlegm.

Your child can suffer from coughing fits, he can get stuffy and full sit down due to smoke. The Health in a 1990 report also indicated that children with smoking parents are more likely to clear their respiratory complaints than children of nonsmoking parents.

* Increased risk of asthma
If your child is predisposed to asthma, the chances that he actually gets bigger asthma when smoking in his presence. In asthma the airways extra sensitive, they react allergic to many substances. This makes the airways narrower and you get short of breath, persistent cough and you must give mucus. If your child has asthma, tobacco smoke can cause an attack of breathlessness.

A group of specialist doctors in London found that the attacks more severe and occur more frequently when a child inhales more smoke. Also showed that the lung function of asthmatic children with a mother smoking 13 to 23% worse than that of asthmatic children with a non-smoking mothers. Asthmatic children who are often in a smoky environment, have also often more medicine.

* More often go to the hospital
Children of smoking parents are the first two years of life more often a doctor or hospital than children of nonsmoking parents. This is because such children often suffer from diseases to their airways. The risk of hospitalization for a respiratory infection such as pneumonia, is also twice as high when smoking around your child.

* Increased risk of SIDS
SIDS is the sudden, unexpected death of a baby who just seems to be healthy. The causes of this sudden deaths has been much research. Smoke near your baby is one of the possible factors contributing to SIDS. Other causes are on the belly or the side of your baby sleep, use a pillow and a duvet.

The incidence of SIDS has decreased, because most parents do now to ensure that their child sleeps on his back and under a blanket or a baby sleeping bag. Where there is now ensuring that children are not exposed to tobacco smoke (during and after pregnancy) can still be prevented more cases of SIDS.

* Lasting effects later in life
Children to second hand smoke their entire lifetimes keep working lungs worse. Respiratory symptoms during infancy increase the risk of lung diseases like chronic bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer in later life. The Health, this is an additional reason to exposure to tobacco smoke as much as possible.

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