While its best to quit smoking during pregnancy, for women who cannot, taking vitamin C supplements can reduce their babies’ risk of developing a wheeze, finds a study.<\/p>\n
Wheeze is a condition of producing whistle like sound due to obstructed lower respiratory tract.<\/p>\n
The results showed statistically significant difference in lung function between the babies, at three months of age, born to women who took supplemental vitamin C every day and those who were prescribed a placebo.<\/p>\n
Despite the apparent benefits of vitamin C, “getting women to quit smoking during pregnancy has to be priority one”, said lead author Cynthia McEvoy, of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), US.<\/p>\n
For those roughly 50 per cent of pregnant smokers who will not, or cannot quit despite all efforts, quit smoking, vitamin C supplementation may be a simple and safe way to help their babies breathe better, she added.<\/p>\n
Previous study revealed that daily supplemental vitamin C in pregnant women who could not quit smoking reduced the harm on babies’s lungs.<\/p>\n
Vitamin C may “block the increased collagen deposition around the airways that has been shown in animal models of babies born after smoke\/nicotine exposure during pregnancy, which likely makes the lungs and airways stiffer”, said Eliot Spindel from the varsity.<\/p>\n
It can also “prevent some of the epigenetic changes that contribute to the lifelong effects of in-utero tobacco exposure,” Spindel noted.<\/p>\n
In the study, presented during American Thoracic Society International Conference at San Diego, the team measured the force expiratory flows (FEFs) — speed with which air can be forced out of the lung – among babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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