Contents:
- Medical Video: Smoking During Pregnancy - New Study
- The danger of cigarette smoke against passive smoking
- The danger of cigarette smoke in pregnant women
- Danger of cigarette smoke in children
Medical Video: Smoking During Pregnancy - New Study
It is no secret that smoking can trigger various health problems. However, you also need to know that not only active smokers are at risk of developing various diseases. Passive smokers also have the same opportunity to develop various diseases due to cigarette smoke. Passive smokers are those who take in cigarette smoke from people around them who smoke but don't smoke themselves. Come on, find out the dangers of passive smoking from inhaling cigarette smoke too often.
The danger of cigarette smoke against passive smoking
Cigarette smoke contains around 7,000 chemicals consisting of particles and also gas. More than 50 substances contained in them can cause cancer and the rest can irritate all organs in the body including the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
There are two types of cigarette smoke, smoke the mainstream and sidestream. Smoke the mainstream is smoked directly through the cigarette mouth tip by smokers while sidestream smoke is from the tip of the cigarette that burns and spreads into the air.
Between the two, smoke sidestream is the most dangerous because it is four times more toxic than smoke the mainstream. Because, smoke sidestream contains three times as much carbon monoxide, 10 to 30 times as much nitrosamines, and 15 to 300 times as much ammonia.
Usually, passive smokers breathe smoke sidestream and smoke that is exhaled directly by smokers around it. Just like active smokers, passive smoking also has the potential to get cancer and heart disease. In addition, the danger of passive smoking is also very high in pregnant women and children.
The danger of cigarette smoke in pregnant women
Too often inhaling cigarette smoke during pregnancy is very dangerous for the fetus in the womb. Being passive smokers during pregnancy can increase the risk of the baby experiencing:
- Miscarriage and stillbirth.
- The appearance of various complications at birth.
- Premature birth and low birth weight.
- Unexpected sudden death in infants included in sudden infant death syndrome.
Danger of cigarette smoke in children
When children become passive smokers, there are many health problems that lurk. Here are the various risks:
- Susceptible to flu, coughing, wheezing (soft breath sounds like bro), shortness of breath, and middle ear infections.
- Increases the risk of respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia and weaker and not fully developed lung conditions.
- Affected by asthma and experiencing more attacks and using asthma drugs for a longer period of time for children who already have asthma. Especially if one of the residents has smoked so that the smoke tends to settle.
