HOW DOES POLLUTION AFECT NEWBORN BABIES

Now a day, pollution is prejudicing everybody, but specially babies who have just born.

A new investigation adverts us that exist a direct relationship between newborns and environmental pollution. As more pollution, more under-weighted babies.

Environmental Health Perspectives has looked over a lot of births in nine different countries around the world. The study is about the smallest particles which are generated by cars, heatings and energy generator plants.

This study gives us much more information about how babies will be during their lives, and it’s really horrible! Most of the babies may die during the first year. Most of others have rather more possibilities to suffer diabetes or tachycardia’s throughout their lives.

After studying the pollution levels in America, Europe, Asia… scientist approach the prejudice in what women are exposed during their pregnancy. As year after year levels of pollution keep going up babies are losing between 1-3% of their weight par year.

Now, scientists have an alarming new trouble. Nobody knows how pollution affects the baby. Professor Morello-Forch speculates that it’s maybe the oxidative-stress.

This kind of stress starts with an instability between oxygen and the immunologic system, which protects the women’s body.

These days, everybody knows that the only and necessary way to stop that problem, is by reducing pollution in all over the world. It’s not an easy task, but it’s possible!

Laia Fontelles