Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? (SIDS)

          SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a leading cause of death in infants under the age of one, has left medical experts unable to clearly define sudden infant death syndrome. After thirty years of research, the medical field has not discovered definite causes for SIDS. Medical experts have suggested many theories that have been studied and debated.

It is every parents’ worst fear to wake up one morning to find that their child has passed away without warning. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the common name used today is also referred to as Crib Death, which is an unexplained death occurring during sleep of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old (mayo clinic). Even though there are some ways to prevent SIDS, there is no guarantee that a child is a hundred percent safe. Some ways to prevent SIDS can be done with parental knowledge of how SIDS occurs. Even though the baby has nothing medically wrong, it could be that the parents did something unintentionally by accident or are simply uniformed.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a condition that many people still are trying to figure out why it happens to these babies. This syndrome is described as an unexplained death of an infant younger than one year of age. SIDS is frightening because it can strike without warning and affect a good, healthy infant. Most SIDS deaths occur at night and without warning. SIDS victims may have been down for sleep for as little as ten minutes, they show signs of struggle or suffering. Although SIDS is commonly associated with an infants sleep time, and often occurs in the crib. This event is not limited to the crib and may occur anywhere the infant is sleeping, deaths have occurred in

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome remains the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality (under the age of one) in developed countries. The causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have been puzzling and research is being conducted to solve this catastrophic problem. Having a child under the age of one makes me very concerned, along with any other parent(s), that the possibility of SIDS could affect any infant at anytime, SIDS does not discriminate. I am seeking to find the possible causes to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome so in the future deaths could be avoided.

Knowledge is power. For more information about SIDS and how parents and caregivers can reduce the risk, visit the following online resources: The National SIUD/SID Center (www.sidscenter.org) The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (www.nichd.nich.gov) The American Academy of Pediatrics (www.aap.org) The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (www.cpsc.gov) First Candle/SIDS Alliance (www.firstcandle.org) Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Program (www.sudc.org) Your local state and county Child Health and Welfare office. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Learn More: What You Should Know About SIDS... Infant Health and Wellness The Safe to Sleep campaign formerly the Back to

     When putting it all together the number of lives births each year, SIDS remains the leading cause of death in the United States among infants between one month and one year of age and second only to congenital anomalies as the leading overall cause of death for all infants less than one year of age.

An article in Science Daily tells that a neurologists studies led by investigators say that children who die by SIDS have differences in their brainstem chemistry (Boston Children's Hospital). Activities like breathing, heart rate change, blood pressure, and temperature are impacted by abnormalities in the brain (Boston Children's Hospital). Besides the physical factors there are also three sleep environmental factors that impact SIDS: sleep on the stomach or side, sleep on a soft surface, and sleeping with parents (Mayo Clinic Staff). Sleeping on the stomach or side causes infant to have problems breathing, and airway can become blocked if infant is put down to sleep on a soft surface. As I have also read in my Lesson Book and online, when infants are put to sleep on their bellies and/or sides it causes them to have trouble breathing. This eventually leads to the sudden death of an infant in his or her crib (ILC).

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Sometimes a baby who seems healthy passes away during sleep. No parent wants to wake up and find their infant not breathing. Sudden Infant Death disorder (SIDS) is one of the leading causes for death among newborn children one month to one year of age. Taking the lives of around 2,500 Infants every year in the United States. An extra 3,500 babies pass on every year from different reasons for sudden and surprising newborn child demise (SUID, or, suffocation). Sudden infant death is a tragic event for any parent or caregiver, and is no one's fault. SIDS can happen even when everything done right.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or "crib death" is an abrupt and inexplicable death of an apparently healthy infant. Most of the cases involve infants from ages 1-12 months, and the event occurs during the night. Various theories have been postulated from research results but without consistency of the etiology. Since the death is sudden, prior diagnostic criteria or patterns are not available for correlation, although some near-miss infants have been followed. A number of possibilities have been documented in current literature, to include beta-endorphin changes, abnormal temperature regulation, pineal abnormalities, carotid body irregularities, lead poisoning, elevated fetal hemoglobin,

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome remains the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality (under the age of one) in developed countries. The causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have been puzzling and research is being conducted to solve this catastrophic problem. Having a child under the age of one makes me very concerned, along with any other parent(s), that the possibility of SIDS could affect any infant at anytime, SIDS does not discriminate. I am seeking to find the possible causes to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome so in the future deaths could be avoided.

Out of the ten Health Concepts Statement, I planned to go over the Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) which is the leading cause of death among infants between 1 week and 1 year of age. I have never heard of this health issue until now. As I did a bit of some research in the textbook and other cites, in the textbook, it mentions what can occur to an infant between one week and one year of age to die. According to the textbook of Understanding Your Health, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), occurs when some mothers who smoked during pregnancy. Later, the textbook states that the statistic also shows that infants are most likely to develop chronic respiratory problems, have more frequent colic, be hospitalized, and have poorer overall health

Your child, the person you love and protect with all your might, what happens when you can’t protect them? Your job as a mother or father has failed, but you did nothing wrong. You asked what caused this. What did I do wrong? This is what many families ask themselves due to the effects of sudden infant death syndrome, also known as SIDS. A disease presented in newborn children generally from 2 to 6 months in age that causes them to merely forget to breathe. This tragic phenomenon occurs every 21.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in the United States annually totaling to 0.000214%. Even though the percentage of SIDS isn’t very high, it’s high enough to make us realize this as an issue. I have personally been affected by this disease as well,

Infants born from mothers that smoked are three times more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), a condition in which babies who appears healthy die suddenly while sleeping, as are babies whose mothers do not smoke during pregnancy. This is also a point of contention between researchers as well. "Children born to mothers who smoked while pregnant, and possibly children whose grandmothers smoked while pregnant, have a higher risk of developing childhood asthma (Child)." Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be born with birth defects such as cleft lip or palate and to have low birth weight.

Each year in the United States, more than 3500 infants without prior known illness or injury die suddenly and unexpectedly. Such deaths have occurred for centuries, with the first reference being in the Book of Kings in the Bible, where a woman was thought to have lost her infant due to “overlaying” which is rolling over her baby in her sleep.