After cesarean births, after investigation, the techniker Krankenkasse (TK) statistically more likely to health problems in children. Whether the reason is the type of maternity leave on the Basis of the accounting data, however, unable to determine, said Jens Baas, Chairman of the Board of the Fund, at the launch of the children’s health reports to the office in Berlin. So I can not be included due to the limited data situation, for example, whether mothers smoked in pregnancy, whether or not you ate healthy and your Baby after a caesarean Section breastfed.
Increased risk of disease after caesarean births
The health insurer analyzed the payroll data of approximately 38.850 children who were born in the year of 2008 until 2016, eight years old. Approximately 11,900 people babies (31 percent) were by caesarean. You had to develop compared to naturally born children, according to the TK, a nearly eleven-percent higher risk of behavior disorders. The risk for chronic Bronchitis was increased by around 9.5 percent, the risk of allergies by around nine percent. The Report also shows abnormalities, for example, in the case of nutrition problems, where the risk after cesarean births average is eleven percent higher. The risk for gastro-intestinal disorders, therefore, is seven percent higher and obesity by 36 percent.
Could not distinguish the cashier at the data whether a child was brought in under a heavy birth by Emergency caesarean section, or whether it was a scheduled procedure without problems.
“C-sections are a blessing for mother and child, when they are used in medically necessary cases,” said TK CEO Jens Baas. Medically unnecessary caesarean sections be avoided in the interest of the children. In many German Kreißsälen this intervention will be done “is still too often,” said Baas. The caesarean figures in Germany Baas named in comparison with neighbouring countries such as the Netherlands, “alarmingly high”. There, the Rate was only 16 percent. The reasons for caesarean sections in Germany were from the checkout data will not be read. Regionally, the Emperor is different average rate in Germany, from 24 percent in Saxony to 37.2 percent in the Saarland.
Here you can read the children’s health report by the techniker Krankenkasse.
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