REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Community nutrition expert who graduated from the University of Indonesia, Dr Tan Shot Yen, said that one of the impacts of a husband who smokes is that his wife gives birth to a baby with a low birth weight due to not getting enough oxygen.
He said it wasn’t about nicotine, smells or secondhand smoke. However, regarding the smoke produced, be it cigarettes, cigars or vape.
“Smoke contains carbon monoxide or CO. When CO gas is bound by red blood cells, the bond is 200 times stronger than red blood cells binding oxygen,” said Tan Shot Yen, Thursday (5/10/2023).
In fact, he added, babies to grow or children to live need oxygen. Therefore, wives who have husbands who smoke can give birth to babies with low birth weight or LBW because they do not get enough oxygen while in the womb.
“Moreover, it’s even sadder, someone said to me that I had been to the puskesmas three times, once to a pediatric specialist, but why was it that I was still sleeping? grok grok. I shoot it easily, ‘Is there a smoker at home? Yes, his father’,” said Tan Shot Yen.
Babies with low birth weight are known to be at risk of experiencing physical development disorders, stunted growth and mental development which will affect the future.
He believes that sometimes it is necessary to tease the public with issues that seem rather cruel and frightening, such as the life expectancy of smokers, the health problems that smokers can experience such as strokes and heart attacks, and other things.
On the other hand, he also reminded the need for prospective mothers and fathers to have an understanding of health conditions before pregnancy or preconception occurs.
“Pre-conception far more important than pre-wedding. Pre-conception is the understanding of prospective parents to understand that my child deserves the best,” he said.
source: Between
2023-10-05 15:18:43
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