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| Passive Smokers Fate |
Even non-smokers, cigarette smoke exposure on breast-feeding mothers and babies can still damage the health. Please note, if someone smokes, it means he just suck the smoke around 15% only, while 85% will be released and eventually inhaled by passive smokers. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that even nearly about 700 million children, or about half of all children in the world, including nursing baby at his mother, forced to suck the air that is polluted by tobacco smoke.
The content of nicotine in cigarettes would be quickly absorbed from the respiratory tract into the flow of maternal blood vessels and directly transferred into milk by diffusion. So if there are outsiders who smoke near the baby, then in addition to nicotine is absorbed from breast milk by mothers who are exposed to cigarette smoke, will also be absorbed directly through the small breathing air. Nicotine and other toxic substances of cigarette smoke going into the baby's airways. Nicotine accumulates in the body will eventually endanger the health of baby and toddler. Disorders in infants caused by cigarette smoke include vomiting, diarrhea, colic, heart rate increased, and others.
A study showed that cigarette smoke inhaled by breast-feeding mothers can inhibit milk production. Within three months, visible weight infants of mothers who smoke or inhale cigarette smoke, also did not show optimal growth.
Cigarette smoke inhaled by passive smokers had turned out to have a chemical content which is higher than smoke cigarettes smoked by the smoker. Cigarette smoke itself contains about three thousand of toxic chemicals including carcinogenic (causes cancer). So, do not be surprised if the influence of cigarette smoke on nonsmokers is three times worse than the dust and coal.
Source : info-sehat.com
