The Working Mother May Increase The Risk Of Childhood Asthma

The United States offered to women without paid maternity leave. When the University of Harvard and McGill has studied the maternity leave of 181 countries, the United States was one of only three countries that have not achieved any leave with pay. The others were in Papua New Guinea and Swaziland. There are potential health risks, the researchers speculated. A new study shows it could be right.

Researchers at the School of Public Health in Denmark has been in contact with pregnant women and those working in the automotive, furniture, shoes, paint or glue, and increases the likelihood that their children would suffer from asthma, reports the Daily Mail .

The study examined seven years to 43,000, and 5.8 percent of children with asthma in general. But after having isolated the children whose mothers had worked in an environment with "low molecular weight substances," this number has increased to 18.6 percent. The r

esearchers controlled for other variables such as maternal age and weight, if she was smoking, drug use, and exposure of the animals.

The difference is small but not negligible. This is the first attempt of its kind to determine any link between the occupation of the mother and the risk of asthma for her child. The study director, Dr. Berit Hvass Christensen said: "Our results are modest at this stage and more research is needed on chemicals or specific substances to determine which could be more damaging."

Other studies have also alluded to the dangers of working during pregnancy. Research at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health found that cosmetologists, exposed to all the toxins in makeup and nail polish, were almost twice as likely to have a miscarriage.

Hairdressers, touch and breathe much paint and aerosols seem to be the transmission of risks to the fetus. Researchers at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands revealed that the baby was almost four times more likely to have mental retardation if the mother was a hairdresser who has worked in a few months of her pregnancy. Of 76 children with neural tube defects, studied by two researchers in Venezuela, 13.6 percent had mothers hairdresser. Hairdressers consisting of only 1.3 percent in the control group.

Earlier this year, the Perth Telethon Institute for Child Health Research found that the number of stressful life events during pregnancy correlated with increased behavioral problems in children.

"Two or less stress during pregnancy is not associated with poor child behavioral development," noted lead researcher Dr. Monique Robinson. "But as the number to increase to three or more constraints, so the risk increase the child's challenging behavior. "

Research in this area is still incomplete, but the fragments accumulate in South America to Australia. Clearly, in some professions, the mother is the greatest risk to the health of your child for a job during the entire pregnancy. Many mothers, however, have no choice but to do so since the law mandates only in the U.S. 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Some companies are obviously more generous, however. New moms in Google, for example, can take 4 ½ months with full pay, and dads can take a leave of seven weeks, more