Don't smoke in front of a child!

If a mom (pregnant woman) smokes during pregnancy, it can have various effects on the baby in the stomach. Of course, it also has an effect on mom himself.

• Low birth weight infants (less than 2500g) are more likely to be born.
• Congenital abnormalities (lip and palate, congenital heart disease, etc.) are more likely to occur.

• Increases the risk of pregnancy and delivery complications.
• Increases the risk of miscarriage and premature birth.
• The risk of early detachment, front placenta, etc. increases.

Cigarette smoke contains more than 200 kinds of harmful substances. When parents and adults around you smoke, not only those who smoke, but also children are more likely to get sick.

• A disease in which a baby suddenly dies (sudden infant death syndrome)
  Both parents smoke 4. 7 times
  One of the parents smoke 1. 6 times
• It becomes more susceptible to bronchial diseases such as bronchi.
  Pneumonia and bronchitis: 1. 5～2． 5 times
  Bronchial asthma: 1. 5 times
  Otitis media: 1. 2～1． 6 times
• In addition, it can adversely affect the child's physical development and the gums are more likely to have darkened.
• It also has an adverse effect on breastfeeding.

When you smoke, a harmful substance called nicotine is taken into your body. Nicotine increases heart rate, contract peripheral vascular contract, increases blood pressure, and damages blood vessels. This nicotine becomes a substance called cotinin in the body and is excreted from urine.

The graph below measures how much this cotinine comes out of the child's urine. If the number of children in a household that does not smoke, it indicates how many times more cigarettes smoke. Cotinine does not come out unless it is affected by cigarette smoke. In other words, the high value indicates that it is affected by the smoke of tobacco smoked by adults around the child (passive smoking).