Fish Study: Vaping Certain Flavours When Pregnant May Cause Issues in Offspring

Source from:  Vapingpost 12/03/2020

Published in the journal Biology Letters, the study titled “Vape flavourants dull sensory perception and cause hyperactivity in developing zebrafish embryos,” reported that exposure to flavoured e-cig chemicals in the womb, leads to hyperactive offspring. Additionally, reported the study, those flavourants containing nicotine cause even more dramatic changes to a growing foetus’ grey matter.

Lead study author Professor Mathilakath Vijayan, said that smoke toxins can pass to a foetus and have an affect on brain chemistry.

Similarly, he added, “vaping during pregnancy exposes the developing baby’s brain to chemicals in the vape. Our results suggest flavours have the potential to impact pre-natal brain development.”

Vijayan’s research team at the University of Calgary in Canada, used a technique called PMR (photomotor response) to make the zebrafish embryos move under light, and then analysed their movement according to what flavourants they were exposed to.

“We tested the effects of flavoured blue raspberry and cinnamon and unflavoured vape liquids with and without nicotine. While the unflavored vapes had no impact, the flavoured vapes even without nicotine caused profound behavioural changes which were similar to nicotine alone.”