{"id":5782,"date":"2024-01-30T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:43:14","slug":"babies-exposed-to-covid-in-the-womb-are-more-likely-to-suffer-breathing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/30\/babies-exposed-to-covid-in-the-womb-are-more-likely-to-suffer-breathing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies Exposed to COVID in the Womb Are More Likely to Suffer Breathing Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Babies Exposed to COVID in the Womb Are More Likely to Suffer Breathing Problems\">Scientific American<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than four years after the virus that causes COVID first appeared, scientists continue to discover new ways that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/covid-poses-severe-risks-during-pregnancy-especially-in-unvaccinated-people\/\">illness threatens pregnant people and babies<\/a>\u2014as well as additional evidence that vaccination offers significant protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study finds that babies born to women who got COVID while they were pregnant were three times more likely to develop serious breathing problems than infants whose mothers didn\u2019t have the disease during pregnancy, even if the infants weren\u2019t infected themselves. Seventeen percent of the babies in the study who were exposed to COVID before birth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-44549-5\">developed respiratory distress<\/a>, compared with only about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7193066\/\">5 to 6 percent of newborns<\/a>\u00a0in the general population before the pandemic. The findings were published on Wednesday in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respiratory distress is a serious and sometimes life-threatening complication that can lead babies to be hospitalized in intensive care units, where they\u2019re given extra oxygen or even placed on a ventilator. In the study, babies with respiratory distress were sick for an average of 24 days. None died. The researchers followed the infants for six months and don\u2019t know if any of the babies had longer-term complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respiratory distress is most often seen in premature babies whose lungs aren\u2019t fully developed, says Karin Nielsen, the study\u2019s senior author and a professor of pediatrics who specializes in infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this study, however, even full-term infants were more likely to develop breathing problems if their mother had COVID while pregnant.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just one more thing to worry about with this mysterious virus,\u201d says Sean O\u2019Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 Committee on Infectious Diseases, who was not involved in the new study. \u201cFour years in, we\u2019re learning still new things about this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"C rFcjRRWiP WwgM Cjl DOB m rE\">C rFcjRRWiP WwgM Cjl DOB m rE<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American More than four years after the virus that causes COVID first appeared, scientists continue to discover new ways that the&nbsp;illness threatens pregnant people and babies\u2014as well as additional evidence that vaccination offers significant protection. 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