Don’t SMOKE

Your smoking habit can make your baby illness. Kids exposed to passive smoking are at an increased risk of catching infectious disease and have to be admitted to hospital. It has found that children exposed to second hand tobacco smoke increase their likelihood of developing range of infectious illnesses, such as meningococcal disease, and not just respiratory illness. Exposure to smoke the first few months of life was most detrimental among children with low birth weight or premature birth. They looked at the relationship between second hand smoke exposure and first admission to hospital for any infectious illness for 7,402 children born in Hong Kong in April and May 1997. the children were followed until they were eight the findings revealed that the earlier the exposure to smoke, the more profound the effect with exposure to second hand smoke during the first six months of life, thus increasing the likelihood of being admitted to hospital for any infectious disease during the eight years by almost 45%.

Among those with low birth weight 75% were more likely to be admitted to hospital with an infectious disease during the eight years and those who where premature being twice as likely.