Smoking Dad, Kids Suffer Pneumonia Risk

Smoking is not only harmful to the health of the smokers themselves, but also the people around him. For example, if a father often smoke in the home, children at risk of infection in the lungs, which is pneumonia.

The specialist respiration son of Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Prof. dr. Cissy Kartasasmita, SpA (K) revealed, often encountered cases of child pneumonia and found the father often smoke in the house.

"Although smoking outside the house, but after it went into the house, his right still smell of cigarettes. Then, the baby picked up. Substance remnants of cigarettes in the clothes could be damaging," said Cissy in discussions Day Pneumonia World on Thursday (11/17/2016).

Cissy explained, exposure to toxic substances from cigarettes are inhaled unintentionally child would destroy the balance of durability in breathing. At first, harmful substances from cigarettes is damaging the cilia or fine hair which serves to filter foreign objects get into the body. If exposed to smoke, the cilia function can be impaired.

"Cilia was like a broom. When damaged, was baseball work, so foreign objects enter, making sputum accumulates, the child was coughing," said Cissy.

Smoking Dad, Kids Have Asthma Risk

For smokers, think about the health of those around you, especially family. According to recent research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children whose father smokers have an increased risk of asthma tripled.

During this time, a number of studies have shown that mothers who smoke during pregnancy risk having children with asthma. Apparently, the habit of smoking by the father was also influential.

According to this study, nicotine in cigarettes has been damage male sperm cells and ultimately affect the child's genes. The study involved 24,000 children. Researchers observed when men began to smoke and see their child's health risks.

Those who smoke since early childhood, before the age of 15 years were very much at risk of health problems in the sperm. So, not only influenced the smoking habit once married, but long before that.

"Paternal smoking, both before conception (fertilization), a threefold risk of having children with asthma compared to those fathers who had never smoked before," says Cecilie Svanes professor at the University of Bergen in Norway.