Women who smoke and breast-feed pose an unknown threat to their infants' health. In this pilot study, relationships between ingestion of nicotine in breast milk and physiologic effects in the infant were investigated. Infant physiologic effects measured were temperature, pulse, respiration, systolic blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Five smoking and five nonsmoking mother-infant pairs were studied. Breast milk was analyzed ... Read More
Physiologic effects of maternal smoking on breast-feeding infants
Posted On 01 Aug 2011 By admin. Under: Smoking during breastfeeding.
Women who smoke and breast-feed pose an unknown threat to their infants' health. In this pilot study, relationships between ingestion of nicotine in breast milk and physiologic effects in the infant were investigated. Infant physiologic effects measured were temperature, pulse, respiration, systolic blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Five smoking and five nonsmoking mother-infant pairs were studied. Breast milk was analyzed ... Read More
Smoking and the Flavour of Breastmilk
Posted On 24 Jul 2011 By admin. Under: Smoking during breastfeeding.
Want another reason to quit smoking?
Want another reason to quit smoking? A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that smoking alters the odour and therefore the flavour of breastmilk.
The study found that breastmilk samples collected from women 30 minutes to one hour after smoking smelled "stronger" or "more like cigarettes" than other samples collected ... Read More
