nicotine patches

Why on Earth would an intelligent doctor put a pregnant woman on nicotine patches? (OK, not intelligent doctors). Have they not heard that nicotine is bad for babies? Why tell the mother not to smoke and then some dumb doctor provides the toxic nicotine anyway! Oh, I forgot to mention: the study showed that mother’s nicotine patch causes colic in infants. Well, of course! Mother smoking cigarettes does it, so of course the patch does it. Duh! Colic is not as trivial as you might think—especially if you are a baby! Colicky babies cry inconsolably for several hours a day (at least three hours a day, more than three days a week, for more than three weeks), and researchers in the Netherlands found that exposure to nicotine — either from cigarettes or nicotine replacement therapy — was associated with a significantly increased risk of colic, ranging from 30 to 60 percent. That’s a BIG effect.

Why on Earth would an intelligent doctor put a pregnant woman on nicotine patches? (OK, not intelligent doctors). Have they not heard that nicotine is bad for babies? Why tell the mother not to smoke and then some dumb doctor provides the toxic nicotine anyway! Oh, I forgot to mention: the study showed that mother’s nicotine patch causes colic in infants. Well, of course! Mother smoking cigarettes does it, so of course the patch does it. Duh! Colic is not as trivial as you might think—especially if you are a baby! Colicky babies cry inconsolably for several hours a day (at least three hours a day, more than three days a week, for more than three weeks), and researchers in the Netherlands found that exposure to nicotine — either from cigarettes or nicotine replacement therapy — was associated with a significantly increased risk of colic, ranging from 30 to 60 percent. That’s a BIG effect.