Another study showed the danger of bad habits during pregnancy. Children born to smokers and drinkers have a 12-fold increased risk of sudden death.

Sudden childhood death syndrome is one of the most frightening phenomena for parents that science cannot fully explain.. And now the study showed that children from mothers who during pregnancy smoked and drank alcohol are 12 times more often victims of this terrible syndrome. The researchers made these conclusions when they tracked the first years of life of 12,000 children from South Africa and the United States.. It was found that if mothers drank and smoked, then the probability of the death of their children in the first three months of life was much higher.

Moreover, the rejection of one kind of habit reduced this risk, but did not reduce it to the average. For example, if future mothers refused alcohol, but continued to smoke after the first trimester, then their children were 5 times more often victims of sudden infant death syndrome. If women refused to smoke, but continued to drink alcohol, then the risk of their children to die in the first months grew 4 times, compared with the average. That is why women who plan to become mothers, it is better to completely abandon cigarettes and alcohol, and it is recommended to do this long before conception.

Recall that sudden infant death syndrome is called an unexplained and unexpected departure from the life of a child under the age of one year.. About 500-700 babies become victims of this syndrome in Russia annually, and in the USA approximately 2,500. The cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but science has evidence that both maternal smoking and alcohol can increase its risk.. New study published by EclinicalMedicine.

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