Can someone infect a preemie baby with RSV if they were previously in a room where there was smoking?
If you weren’t a smoker, but lived with someone who did, could the residual smoke on your clothing cause RSV in a premature infant if you were to hold the baby? I know smoke is harmful, but residual on clothing?
RSV is a virus that causes most of us to just have a bit of a cold but to vulnerable babies it can be quite serious.
It is spread the usual way cold and flu germs are spread, from person to person.
It has nothing to do with cigerette smoke.
I once read that toxins from cigerette smoke can cling to clothing and later be inhaled by the baby if you were to hold them close. However I think this is only a negliable amount and would only be a problem in regular sustained contact, for example if one of the parents smoked even though it was outside away from the baby.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Absolutely not. What is bad about smoking is the SMOKE. To be around a person that smells like smoke is not harmful at all, as there is no smoke. The smell of smoke is not harmful.
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i’m a nurse
September 14th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
RSV is a virus that causes most of us to just have a bit of a cold but to vulnerable babies it can be quite serious.
It is spread the usual way cold and flu germs are spread, from person to person.
It has nothing to do with cigerette smoke.
I once read that toxins from cigerette smoke can cling to clothing and later be inhaled by the baby if you were to hold them close. However I think this is only a negliable amount and would only be a problem in regular sustained contact, for example if one of the parents smoked even though it was outside away from the baby.
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