Unborn To Asthma Cause And Effect

In the world today we have many things that are harmful and dangerous to us. Usually when we think of someone causing you harm, it is not so close to home. Your mother and father are the furthest from your mind of people who would do something bad to you. In many cases they are the people who can do the most harm. In this review I would like to determine if children ages unborn to eighteen with daily exposure to tobacco smoke have a predisposition to asthma. I chose these ages because this is when the child is really helpless and vulnerable to the parents, when they are living with them. They have no other options than to be around the parent and cannot take care of themselves outside of the home.
We all know that cigarettes have many dangerous
Second hand smoke is just as harmful and sometimes more harmful to a defenseless small child. Over half of all children in the United States breathe in secondhand smoke; whether at home, in a car, or in public. This has caused more than three hundred thousand children to suffer from infections such as, bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections. Breathing in these toxic fumes can cause sudden infant death, asthma which can carry on with a child until adulthood, gum diseases, pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung problems. Another area for concern is breastfeeding an infant while smoking. Hopefully a mother would not sit and hold a baby while smoking but even walking outside to smoke and then breastfeeding is dangerous. While the effects are smaller than secondhand smoke the mothers could still pass some nicotine and other chemicals to the baby while breastfeeding. It takes about ninety five minutes for the body to eliminate the nicotine, so feeding the baby prior to that could harm her. Smoking while lactating can lead to early weaning, low milk production, and blocked let down reflexes. A mother who does the “right” thing by smoking outside can still jeopardize the child. Residue or smoke stuck to her clothing can irritate the child’s eyes and nose and cause respiratory issues. Smoking has been linked to colic in an infant as well. Infants are twenty four percent more likely to develop colic than an infant not exposed to secondhand smoking. A doctor might prescribe a nicotine patch as a last resort to help women quit smoking while pregnant as well. The effects of the nicotine is not as harmful as it would be if the mother was actually smoking. Children of all ages can suffer the harmful effects of secondhand smoke and often end up smoking themselves. Roughly ninety percent of adults that smoke started when they were just a kid. Because the nicotine is so addictive, nearly one thousand teenagers a day