JAKARTA - Community nutrition expert graduated from the University of Indonesia, Dr Tan Shot Yen, said that one of the impacts of the husband who smoked was that the wife gave birth to a baby with a low birth weight due to not getting enough oxygen.
"The smoke contains carbon monoxide or CO. CO gas is bound by red blood cells, it is 200 times stronger than red blood cells bind oxygen," said Tan Shot Yen, quoted from Antara.
In fact, he added, babies to grow or children need oxygen to live. Therefore, a wife who has a husband who is a smoker can give birth to a baby with a low birth weight or BBLR because she does not get enough oxygen while in the womb.
"Moreover, it's even sad, someone told me that I've been to the puskesmas three times, one to a child specialist, but why is it still hard to sleep. I shoot it easily, 'there are smokers at home? Yes, his father'," said Tan Shot Yen.
Low birth weight babies are known to be at risk of physical development disorders, stunted growth and mental development that will affect the future.
He argues, sometimes it is necessary to poke at the public with issues that seem a bit cruel, scary as with the life expectancy of smokers, health problems that smokers can experience, such as strokes and heart attacks, and other things.
On the other hand, he also reminded the need for prospective fathers and mothers to have an understanding of health conditions before pregnancy or preconception occurs.
"Peconception is much more important than pre-wedding. Pre-conception is the understanding of prospective parents to understand that my child deserves the best," he said.
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