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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/ 1 Like |
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