Tobacco smoke increases the infant’s risk of developing hay fever

Smokers with children who are not even a year old must know that secondhand smoking in their house severely increases the infant’s risk of developing hay fever (allergic rhinitis).

This is a recent conclusion of a study conducted by an epidemiologic team at University of Cincinnati (UC).

Because infant's immune system and lungs and are still developing in the first year of life, the body releases substances to defend itself from tobacco smoke, causing this way the allergy (infant experiences constant sneezing and a blocked nose). The main conclusion of the study is that it’s essential for parents to eradicate tobacco from their homes to improve the good health of their children.

So if you have one year old kids around, think twice before lighting a cigarette in your house. This is the first study finding a relationship between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and hay fever (allergic rhinitis) in year-old infants. The study also concluded that household mold, always considered to be a significant cause for rhinitis, did not influence allergic rhinitis development.









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