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How Smoking During Pregnancy Affect The Unborn Baby by Jayclinics(m): 6:20am On Jul 18, 2014
When Doctors advice individuals to quit smoking
and they decline and continue, they can be
pardoned than when a pregnant mother is
adviced to quit puffing out some smoke amd she
continues. For the fact that the nutrients on
her bodt, including the oxygen she breathes in is
not for her alone but to be shared ratiomally
between her body’s cells and that of the unborn
baby that is inside her womb.
Smoking mothers tend to endanger the health
of their babies amd when the babies surface
into the world; they come along with one or
more difficulties. One of these difficulties
include a condition known as RESPIRATORY
DISTRESS SYNDROME (R.D.S). Common in
infants. It is also called Hyalin membrane
distress. It is a disease of the new born
resulting from the abnormal production of
Surfactant due to immaturity of the lungs. Such
infants are known for there inadequate gas
exchange in the lungs.
During during foetal life, it will be nice if I
assume that you know that the lungs remain
collapse and the foetus gains its oxygen and
other nutrients from the diffusion exchange
that occurs at the placenta.
Immediately after birth, the first cry the
baby makes opens up every air passage ways and
some ducts in the heart and also gets the lungs
working. This substance, called Sulfactants, in
the aveolus sac in the lungs keeps the lungs
from collapsing back to its previous position. This
substance, lining on the walls of the lungs’
aveolus is secreted by type 2 pneumocytes and
mainly made up of phospholipids. It has the
property of lowering surface tension.
Inadequate surfactant production causes air sacs
to collapse on expiration and greatly increases the energy required for breathing. The development of interstitial oedema makes the lung even less compliant. This leads to hypoxia and retention of carbon dioxide.
Right-to-left shunting may be severe
and occurs through collapsed lung
(intrapulmonary) or, if pulmonary hypertension
is severe, across the ductus arteriosus and the
foramen ovale (extrapulmonary).

So where does smoking come in here? Studies
shows that smoking in pregnant mothers causes
the inadequacy of the infant’s surfactant in the
lungs. Smoking can also cause Atelectasis, which
is the production of abnormal surfactants.
Okay, over to you dear reader. The fact that
the habit of smoking is very hard to stop, what
advice will you give to the potential mothers who
are still smokers to help them stop smoking. You
can save a life by putting it down on the
comment box.

source:
http://cliniconomy.com/2014/07/how-smoking-during-pregnancy-affect-the-unborn-baby/

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