Curious. Last month Eliana told us about the results of a study that indicated that pregnant women who smoke reduce the fertility of the baby they are pregnant if this is a male.
However, a study by researchers from the University of Toronto (Canada) reaches the same conclusion in the event that the baby is a girl.
With this, not only are there no doubts that tobacco is very detrimental to the health of the developing baby, but also for his fertility the day he decides to have his own children.
Scientists discovered that smoking during pregnancy and breastfeeding may decrease the fertility of daughters.
To verify this, they injected under the skin of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) rats, a substance present in cigarette smoke, and observed that their female offspring had a third less active ovarian follicles compared to the “daughters” of rats that did not had been exposed to PAH.
That is, if this study is applied to humans in the same way, women who smoke during pregnancy and lactation would be decreasing their daughters' ovarian function.
We have already warned you that you should quit smoking if you plan to have children, as it is proven that the fertility of both men and women decreases, but the consequences go further, so you should also quit if one day you want to have grandchildren.
