2010/01/18

Study found that babies grow up to passive smoking, allergy prone

A study by Swedish researchers found that babies grow up susceptible to passive smoking allergy.
 

    According to local media reports, for passive smoking and whether infants prone to allergy problems, the international medical community there has been a different view. Sweden's Karolinska Institute researchers in more than 4,000 four-year-old children, after research found that long-term environmental tobacco smoke in the baby grew up troubles in the risk of allergy is much higher than other peers. Among them, two-month-old baby if long-term passive smoking, their 4-year-old when the risk of suffering from indoor allergies than other children in the high 28% of their peers, their milk, eggs and flour and other food allergy risk than other children the same age of high 50%, the risk of suffering from cat allergies will be higher than 1 times.

 

    The researchers explained that the baby such as the long period of environmental tobacco smoke in the developing respiratory system of their organization would be destroyed, and thus more sensitive to some substances, and will suffer from allergies. The research results have been published in the latest issue of "Chest" medical journal.
 

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