Smoking increases the infection and hair loss

According to the results of a recent US study, quitting smoking is considered a treatment for serious infections, dental disease or tuberculosis infection.

According to the results of a recent US study, quitting smoking is considered a treatment for serious infections, dental disease or tuberculosis infection.

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Smoking is one of the causes of oral cavity cancer . (Photo: VNN) Children who avoid the risk of inhaling smoke will reduce the risk of meningitis caused by infection with meningococcus or earache, ear infection.

For older people, avoiding inhalation of tobacco smoke reduces the risk of influenza and meningococcu infection. In addition, smokers must get a yearly flu vaccine, get vaccinated against pneumonia, and if they suffer from burns, take acyclovir .

Doctors often advise patients to quit smoking because it will cause complications such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or the risk of lung cancer, throat cancer, pancreas .

More important is the risk of ear infections and meningitis when inhaling cigarette smoke. This risk does not leave anyone, including men, women and children.

Another effect of smoking is that, according to Dr. Ralph Trueb and colleagues at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, smoking reduces blood flow to the scalp. Nicotine is present in the hairs of smokers. Moreover, the study results show that nicotine causes DNA damage in the roots of hair fibers.

Smoking also causes inflammation, causing hair roots not to grow. The result of scar formation here and so will prevent hair growth. It is the cause of hair loss. Smoking also reduces estrogen, which is another cause of hair loss.

Update 14 December 2018
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