Babies born to mothers who did not smoke during pregnancy, but were exposed to cigarette smoke because of others, present a higher risk of having some eczema or other skin problems in childhood. Surefire but they risk disease and severe.
When they reach primary school, so children exposed to smoke have a 50% higher probability of being already suffered from atopic dermatitis than those whose mothers did not stay in locations that could be exposed to cigarette smoke show results of a study by researchers in South Korea.
Atopic dermatitis is an inflammatory skin condition that creates an itch. This is characteristic of the first years of life.
Scientists have compared blood samples taken from 3,639 children to children aged 7 and 8 and found that carriers of different forms of genes encoding TNF-alpha and TLR-4 were more likely to have been exposed to atopic dermatitis if Smoke in the period were still in the womb.
Both genes have been correlated over time, and the more severe inflammatory diseases such as asthma, Crohn's Disease (a chronic inflammatory disease occurring in the wall of the digestive tract) and rheumatoid arthritis (joint disease rare but very painful ).
Source: Science News
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