HEALTH ALERT!!! Before you Allow Your Pregnant Wife Cook With Kerosene , You Might Want to Read These

A new study conducted in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has made a shocking new revelation on married woman especially the pregnant ones.

According to a study led by author and professor of medicine, Christopher Olopade, who is a family director of international programmes at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, the use of clean-burning ethanol stoves, as against kerosene stoves, can reduce hypertension and cardiovascular risk in pregnant women.

The new study conducted in Ibadan, Oyo State, revealed that pregnant women who were used to using kerosene stove had lesser chances of developing high blood pressure when they switched to ethanol stoves.

In report titled, ‘Randomised Controlled Ethanol Cookstove Intervention and Blood Pressure in Pregnant Nigerian Women’, researchers stated that the frequency of developing hypertension and diastolic blood pressure were decreased in pregnant women who cooked with ethanol, rather than with traditional cookstoves fueled by wood or kerosene.

According to Punch newspaper, they however noted that systolic blood pressure levels of the pregnant women that took part in the study did not change significantly.

Olopade stated, “Although previous studies found that exposure to household air pollution increased the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, no randomised, controlled trial had investigated whether clean-burning fuel would reduce the incidence of hypertension in pregnant women.”