Evidence that smoking mothers related to cot deaths
Filed under: Sudden Infant Death — Alan @ 7:42 am
Experts now believe that the reason that exposure to smoke can increase the risk of cot death in babies is because baby’s that inhale smoke via the mother during pregnancy often suffer damage to their body’s natural ability to control blood pressure.
At the moment, mother’s that smoke have the highest risk rate for losing a child to cot death.
A research team from the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden found that babies that have been exposed to smoke often experience odd surges in their blood pressure, which can occur even while sleeping in their cots away from smoke.
The surges force the heart to beat harder and faster which in turn can damage circulation and cause sudden infant death.
The study was actually created to look at how a newborn is affected by smoking in the womb, but after the lead researcher Dr. Gary Cohen and his team looked over the plight of 36 newborn babies, out of which, 17 had smoking mothers, they found that the babies had poor heart rates and blood pressure throughout their initial few years of life.
Dr. Cohen stated that there are persistent problems in the regulation of blood pressure in babies that having smoking mothers and that although the problems first appear at birth they worsen gradually over time.
He continued to state that the study then took on a new focus becoming the first to suggest that tobacco exposure while in the womb can lead to lasting problems with an infant’s ability to control their own blood pressure.
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