Passive Smoking is more Dangerous for Baby Boys

When someone is smoking and the fume is inhaled by other people through environment, this inhalation of smoke is called as secondhand smoke (SHS) or passive smoking or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Passive Smoking is very dangerous for babies, infants, children, and also pregnant women. Studies show that passive smoking at home causes noteworthy levels of increased blood pressure that can raise risks of other diseases such as high blood pressure, or hypertension, and heart disease in boys. But, passive smoking seemed to be linked with lowering of blood pressure in girls.

Blood pressure through passive smoking in children, raised 1.6 millimeters of mercury in boys, however decreased 1.8 millimeters in girls. Smoke exposure was connected to systolic blood pressure that relates to surges of blood whenever the heart contracts. Passive smoking causes harmful vascular changes that may be protected by female gender as per many previous studies. Passive Smoking can cause bronchitis, low birth weight babies, pneumonia, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), middle ear infections, and respiratory diseases in toddlers and infants.

New born babies (in their first two years of life) can be at the risk of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia if their parents smoke at home. The growth of the fetus is reduced if a pregnant women inhales smoking. The risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - sudden and unexpected death of a baby under a year old, is increased if the baby exposes in the passive smoking. If children frequently expose to passive smoke then they can be suffered from cancer later in life.