The AAP encourages those who breastfeed to quit smoking. The risks of smoking include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), decreased fetal breathing, learning problems, respiratory disorders, and heart disease as an adult. If quitting is impossible, consider making your home and car smoke-free.1 2
Nicotine secreted into breastmilk can potentially cause severe adverse effects on a newborn and there is no knowledge of the exact period when infants develop the ability to completely metabolize nicotine. Studies found that the amount of nicotine found in breastmilk is 2.9 times greater than that found in maternal blood plasma.3
E-cigarettes are not an FDA-approved method to quit smoking. The inhaled nicotine of e-cigarettes still enters someone’s blood through their lungs, and then easily passes into स्तन का दूध.4 5
While smoking donors are not excluded from donating breastmilk via community milksharing it is the recipient’s personal choice whether they want to receive milk from a donor who smokes tobacco. Eats on Feets requires full disclosure of all substances used.
Donors should not smoke if their milk will be given to a premature or critically ill baby.
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- Healthy Children – हम कहां खड़े हैं: गर्भावस्था के दौरान धूम्रपान ↩︎
- Healthy Children – कैसे छोड़ें: जब धूम्रपान करने वाला तुम हो ↩︎
- कैंडिडा कनिकाली प्रिमो 1, और अन्य. 2013. स्तनपान कराने वाले शिशुओं पर मातृ निकोटीन के प्रभाव
↩︎ - ब्रायन पी. जेन्सेन, मोहम्मद, एमएसएचपी, एफएएपी, और अन्य. 2019. ई-सिगरेट और इसी तरह के उपकरण ↩︎
- CDC – तंबाकू और ई-सिगरेट ↩︎
