Can pregnant women smoke e-cigarettes?

May 15, 2023
In recent years the market began to be popular a vapor electronic cigarette, referred to as electronic cigarettes. Because the appearance and taste and cigarettes are very similar, but electronic cigarettes do not contain tobacco, and to quit smoking gimmick in the smoking folk popularity, some female smokers can not help but want to smoke during pregnancy, when they will go to smoke electronic cigarettes, the following to say that pregnant women in the end can not smoke electronic cigarettes.

Can pregnant women smoke e-cigarettes?

Pregnant women cannot smoke e-cigarettes. Although there is no tobacco inside the e-cigarette, but there is also nicotine. The pregnant woman and the fetus blood connection, pregnant women in smoking e-cigarettes fetus will be exposed to nicotine through the blood connection, so pregnant women can not smoke e-cigarettes.

What are the effects of smoking on the fetus when pregnant women smoke

Miscarriage and premature birth

Because of the special bond between the pregnant woman and the fetus, smoking during pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature birth, and lower birth weight of the fetus.

Fetal death

Nicotine has a vasoconstrictive effect, affects the sympathetic nerves, excites the adrenal system, and releases acetylcholine and catecholamines into the bloodstream, leading to undernourishment of the uterine placenta or fetal death.

Children with intellectual disabilities

Nicotine, carbon monoxide and other harmful substances in e-cigarettes are absorbed into the mother's blood with the smoke, so that the oxygen content in the mother's blood drops, and the oxygen content of the blood in the placenta is affected together with the drop, and the baby who is deprived of oxygen in the mother's body is likely to have mental retardation.

Deformed baby

Pregnant women who smoke e-cigarettes during pregnancy, the chemicals inside the e-cigarette enter the fetus through the placenta and act indirectly on the DNA through the activity, which can cause malformation of the fetus or low immune resistance, liver damage and other problems.

What to do if you want to smoke during pregnancy

You can try to quit smoking. Smoking is bad for your health, let alone for pregnant women. As a mother-to-be, you need to remind yourself that smoking has a bad effect on the development of the baby in your belly, and you will have the motivation to quit smoking. In addition, the company of family members is also very important during the period of quitting smoking, pay more attention to the emotions of pregnant women, and promptly ease the emotions of the mother-to-be.
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