The impact of smoking and breastfeeding on children

Women who are breastfeeding should not smoke, and should not breastfeed after smoking. There are many harmful substances and hazardous ingredients in thick smoke. Some of these harmful substances will enter the baby's body through breast milk, causing adverse effects on the baby's health, especially respiratory symptoms, which will reduce the protection of the baby's respiratory tract, easily cause infection and even pneumonia. What are the effects of smoking and breastfeeding on children?

You can’t smoke during breastfeeding. The actual harm is as follows:

1. Smoking reduces milk secretion

Smoking during breastfeeding can inhibit milk secretion and even lead to insufficient breast milk, which mainly affects mothers who are exposed to secondhand smoke for a long time.

2. Cause baby anorexia

Mothers' smoking can easily cause their babies to have anorexia and abdominal pain, and increase the risk of other diseases.

3. Increase the incidence of respiratory diseases in babies

For example, the incidence of respiratory diseases such as infantile bronchitis and pneumonia will increase by 35% and 47% respectively.

4. Affects the baby's intelligence

If the mother has the habit of smoking, even if the baby has left the mother, his IQ will still be affected. Studies have shown that if the mother has a smoking habit, the baby's math and language skills will lag behind those of normal babies by 3 to 5 months, and even for a long time, the child's hearing and sense of smell will also be seriously affected.

5. Causes neonatal respiratory syndrome

If mothers often smoke in front of their babies, the smoke will affect the baby's respiratory tract and easily cause baby respiratory syndrome.

The harmful substances in cigarettes have a great impact on the development of children's central nervous system, and can easily cause some language delays. We all know that the habit of smoking is a major factor that will have adverse effects on health, but even so, there are still many people in our daily lives who maintain the habit of smoking, and there are also many women who have the habit of smoking before they become pregnant. They successfully quit smoking and drinking during pregnancy, but start to smoke again after giving birth and entering the breastfeeding period.