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May 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) — Parents who smoke may put
their children at greater risk for bladder irritation, according to a
small new study.
Young children between the ages of 4 and 10 were at particular risk
from exposure to secondhand smoke.
Bladder irritation involves the urge to urinate, urinating more
frequently and incontinence. The study revealed that exposure to
secondhand smoke is linked to more severe symptoms of bladder irritation:
The more exposure the children had, the worse their symptoms became.
Led by Dr. Kelly Johnson, researchers from Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital and Rutgers University analyzed survey information on
45 children ranging in age from 4 to 17. All had symptoms of bladder
irritation. The researchers divided the children into four groups based on
the severity of their symptoms: very mild, mild, moderate or severe.
Twenty-four of the children studied had moderate to severe symptoms of
bladder irritation, while 21 had mild or very mild symptoms.
The children with moderate or severe symptoms were more likely to have
consistent exposure to secondhand smoke, the researchers noted. Of these
kids, 23 percent had a mother who smoked and 50 percent of them were
regularly exposed to secondhand smoke while riding in a car.
On the other hand, the children whose mother didn’t smoke and were not
exposed to secondhand smoke in the car had only very mild or mild symptoms
of bladder irritation.
The study was expected to be presented Sunday at the annual meeting of
the American Urological Association in Atlanta. The data and conclusions
should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed
journal.
“Secondhand smoke is a leading cause of preventable death in the United
States,” Dr. Anthony Atala, a pediatric urologist at Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center and a spokesman for the AUA, said in an association news
release. “Beyond conditions such as lung cancer, heart disease and asthma,
we now know that smoking has a negative impact on urinary symptoms,
particularly in young children. Data presented today should be added to
the indisputable evidence that parents shouldn’t smoke around their
children.”
While the study uncovered a link between secondhand smoke and bladder
problems, it did not prove a cause-and-effect.
More information
The U.S. Surgeon General has more about how tobacco smoke causes disease.
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