Feb 26, 2011

Children born by Caesarean section face greater risks in breathing

Denmrkjon, researchers said on Wednesday that the children who are born by Caesarean section is of necessity more likely to have problems breathing four times for those who are born natural birth.
The findings reinforce the evidence of the risks of elective cesarean delivery received by the increasingly popular around the world.
She said Hansen of the University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, that the risk is greater when performed Caesarean section prematurely and called on women not to choose this action before the thirty-ninth week of pregnancy.
The exact cause that explains this increased risk to children born by Caesarean section is still unclear, but Hansen said he was most likely due to hormonal and physical changes associated with childbirth.
Birth and lead to the launch of stress hormones in the mother and in turn transmitted to embryos where it is believed that these hormones play a key role in the maturity of the lungs which Tkonan welling water of the child. Are often cases of respiratory problems associated with cesarean birth is a serious but require in the usual place the child in the custody and treatment with oxygen.
And Hansen and her colleagues based their report, published in the British Medical Journal study to more than 34 thousand children in Denmark.
They found an increase of almost four times the risk of breathing difficulties in children who were born by Caesarean section at 37 weeks and increased at a rate three times in children who were born by Caesarean section at 38 weeks and increase the rate doubled among children who were born in week 39.
As a result, the 10 per cent of children born by Caesarean section face problems breathing when born at 37 weeks compared with 2.8 per cent of children who are born naturally. In Week 39 the ratio is 2.1 per cent compared to 1.1 per cent.
But Hansen stressed that the caesarean section still has many advantages, especially in the case of a child who shows his legs and buttocks during the first delivery, or when a child is in danger

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