Mother who smoke both actively and passively leads to respiratory disease development within their children. (Image via: Shutterstock)

Editorial: Prevent Asthma for Your Baby by Avoiding Smokers

Smoke and babies are natural enemies. For pregnant, soon-to-be mothers, they certainly keep themselves out of harm’s ways to protect their little ones. However, we still find that some mothers are lacking this attention, especially active and passive mother smokers.

While smog is on other hands, cigar smoke is lurking to harm your babies’ lung.

We are not talking only about active smokers, but passive smokers too. In definition, passive smoker is not person who smokes, but who accidentally inhales the smoke while being nearby the surroundings of active smokers. For example. mother who stay with active smoking husband is also considered a passive smoker, since she has to endure the smoke daily.

While this is a common sense to all mothers out there, we find the urge to remind all the negligent mothers out there who still think that they are strong enough to inhale the chemical compound consisted in the smoke. You might be strong, but your babies are not.

A research by DNA scientists at Po-Zen Hospital, Taiwan, tabulated that there are 5.4 million asthma sufferers in UK. “The intensified methylation – as result from passive and active smoking -- alters genetic codes by 43%, and long exposure to cigar smoke lead to the development of early respiratory disease within babies,” said Dr. Chih Chiang Wu, one of the DNA researchers. He also pointed out that the damaged sperm quality also contributes to the development of respiratory disease in babies.

The research was conducted over 756 children to age 6. Following the result of their DNA test and their regular fitness test, the children whose fathers is an active smokers – taking 20 cigars a day – have 35% of developing respiratory disease, while those whose father smoke less than 20 lead to only 25% of respiratory disease. The children whose fathers are not smokers had only 22.7% chance of respiratory disease.

Moreover, mothers who smoke during pregnancy and breastfeeding lead to infertility of their children in the future. The result was published in “Frontiers of Genetics” journal. This is the world’s first genetics research on active smoking mothers and those who passively inhale the smoke.

Regardless to say, mothers who are delivering babies are not supposed to smoke. We never recommend you to inhale smog from vehicles in the open, let alone smoking. Even when you are breastfeeding. It is rightful thing, regardless of what the research has to say.

If you want the best for your children and your babies, then the first and foremost thing that you need to do beforehand is to halt yourselves from smoking cigars. You will not see the difference now, but regret surely comes later, and prevention is better than medication.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/passive-smoke-shown-to-be-huge-factor-in-risk-of-baby-developing-asthma-38169230.html