Till now it was said that if the unborn child was exposed to polluted air there were a lot of chances that the baby would develop asthma before 5 years of age but now a new study has stated that asthma risk increases for an unborn child if the mom-to-be takes paracetamol.
A recent research study warns pregnant women to take paracetamol with care. They have stated that Babies, who are exposed to the common painkiller paracetamol during their days in the womb, may face an increased risk of asthma. If during pregnancy their mothers had savored the common painkiller paracetamol then they may develop asthma by three years of age.
Maria Magnus from Bristol University in Britain has said that “Uncovering potential adverse effects are of public health importance, as paracetamol is the most commonly used painkiller among pregnant women and infants.”
The researchers have said that “The study examined asthma outcomes at ages three and seven and evaluated the likelihood of the association being as a result of the three most common triggers for paracetamol use in pregnancy: pain, fever, and flu.” Almost 5.7% of kids had asthma at 3 years and about 5.1% had asthma at 7 years of age.
Reports confirm that researchers used data “from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study”, and they “compared associations between several conditions during pregnancy (with and without the use of paracetamol) and asthma developing in the 114,500 children in the study.”
The research study findings have been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
