Malawi has the highest rate of premature births in the world but a study suggests a simple intervention with sugar-free chewing gum can reduce the problem.
Chewing sugar-free gum twice a day during pregnancy is linked with a lower rate of premature births, suggests a large trial in Malawi.
The effect seems to happen because the chewing gum reduces gum disease, which has previously been linked with a higher rate of preterm births.at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and colleagues. Malawi was chosen as it has the highest rate of preterm births in the world.
The explanation could be that in people with gum disease, harmful bacteria enter the bloodstream through bleeding gums and reach the placenta. The chewing gum contains the artificial sweetener xylitol, and previous work has found thatThe trial would need to be repeated in high-income countries before we could conclude chewing the gum is similarly beneficial during pregnancy there, says Aagaard.
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