Research conducted on 200 child whose mother smoked regularly during pregnancy showed that these children have smaller brains than other children. They are also easy to see the risk of increased stress, anxiety and depression. At the same time they also see more likely Moody, depressed.
The researchers suspect the tobacco affects the development of the fetus by destroying nerve cells and reduce the amount of oxygen supply to the fetus because the blood vessels shrink. The study also confirms, smoking during pregnancy influence the mental health of young children.
Tobacco exposure right from when in the womb will alter a child's brain structure. In addition, tobacco also influence of the problems related to behavior and adjust the behavior of the child.
Dr. Hanan El Marroun and colleagues have also conducted reviews of the brain and emotional functions of 113 children from age 6 to 8 mother-1 to 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy. In it, 17 women stop smoking when pregnant and discovered 96 people continue to smoke. The results were compared with a group of 113 children not affected by tobacco in the womb. The researchers showed the child by mothers who continue to smoke have smaller brains, there's little gray and white.
In addition, the child also having emotional problems as symptoms of depression, anxiety, emotional and difficult to control in the smaller left cortex. However, with the child has his mother quit when the start of pregnancy , the brain does not encounter such problems.
Dr. El Marroun at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, said: "smoking can cause more serious problems for health including cardiovascular disease and cancer. Smoking in pregnancy has also been shown to have adverse effects on children's health. But still there are up to 25% of pregnant women smoking ".
Smoking in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, fetal growth or cause sudden death syndrome babies. Young tobacco exposure from fetus to easily see the problems related to behavior and cognition during childhood, adolescence. In addition, there is also evidence that these children susceptible to mental disorders and high mortality rates.
According to Dr. Maroun, the nature of nicotine in cigarettes affect the development of the brain. This study also demonstrated for animals-nicotine disrupts the response of neurons to the brain.
Also, when she elected to smoke then the fetus suffered lack of oxygen and nutrients because the arteries were clogged and the blood circulation to the brain hardly. These findings also show the influence of long-term impact.
The study also stressed the importance of preventing and reducing smoking in pregnancy. Full understanding about the danger of tobacco will contribute to reduce the rate of children with tobacco from composing poetry in the fetus.
The researchers estimated that each year the uk has hundreds of infants suffering from physical disabilities are related directly to the cigarette from my mother. The rate of children with missing or deformed limbs is 26%, the rate of cleft palates cleft lip is disabled, about 28% of the digestive organs is 27%, 33% of the skull defects. Of the 700,000 children are born each year in the uk, there are about 120,000 babies are born by mothers smoking.=