There are many studies that we have echoed about the danger of smoking in pregnancy. Today I want to comment on a new study that relates smoking during pregnancy with a greater propensity to consume stimulant and antidepressant medications in the son
This is a Finnish study published in the "American Journal of Epidemiology" that points out that smoking affects the development of the baby's brain.
They analyzed the cases of all those born between 1987 and 1989 in Finland, receiving information on whether the mother smoked from the official records. They crossed them with the records of these children during their childhood and adolescence looking for the percentages of them who had received some type of psychiatric medication.
Eight percent of children and adolescents of non-smoking mothers during pregnancy received at least one of those medications during the study period compared to 11 percent of children of mothers who smoked less than 10 cigarettes a day and about 14 percent of those who were children of women who consumed more than 10 a day during pregnancy.
Although the way in which nicotine or oxygen depletion influence the brain of the fetus is not considered clear, the authors do point out that it is a risk factor for psychiatric diseases of childhood and adolescence.
What this work does not include in the study are other factors, such as the consumption of drugs, alcohol, that the father smoked or that the mother continued smoking during the child's childhood.
Actually, tobacco is a strongly addictive drug and, the most accurate advice would be that before considering a pregnancy, we would have to quit tobacco, so as not to meet the tension and anxiety that can cause it when the child grows in our belly , because the data indicate that smoking in pregnancy hurts the baby and can cause negative effects throughout his life.
