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News items on 'Sudden Infant Death'
Asian infant death rate 'higher'
(BBC 16/11/2009)
Critically ill babies born to South Asian mothers in the UK are nearly twice as likely to die in their first year than other babies, research shows. The infant mortality study was based on more than 40,000 babies admitted into paediatric intensive care in England and Wales between 2004 and 2007. Researchers said that 44% more South Asian infants died before their first birthday than infants of other origins.
Parents 'doubt cot death risks'
(BBC 14/10/2009)
A quarter of 500 mothers polled by the UK's Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) doubted that sharing a bed with a baby put them at undue risk. But a Bristol University team's study published online in the British Medical Journal found that sharing a bed is a factor in more than 50% of cases. Many of the deaths occurred when parent and infant slept together on a sofa. Much of this risk was linked to parents' smoking and alcohol or use of sedating drugs before bedtime.
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Sudden infant deaths 'tumbling'
(BBC 26/08/2009)
The number of unexplained infant deaths - or cot deaths - has been falling, provisional figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest. There were 264 such deaths in 2007 across England and Wales, down 7% on the year before. What causes the deaths is unclear, but there are measures to reduce the risk. These include putting a baby on its back to sleep, not smoking in the vicinity of the baby and not sharing a bed if the parent is very tired or has been drinking.
Mine or yours
(BBC 23/06/2009)
Steve Blum's son Christopher was buried last November but he did not go to the funeral. Mr Blum, who has always disputed the the pathologists' finding of cot death as the cause of four-month-old Christopher's death, wanted his son to remain in the North London mortuary where he had lain for 21 years until he could have the inquest he feels his son deserves. "We were not prepared to go along in a funeral procession with Enfield Council, or any other outside official, heading a forced funeral,"
Bed sharing 'risks babies lives'
(BBC 29/04/2009)
Parents are being warned not to risk their babies lives by sharing a bed with them while sleeping. Latest evidence released by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) shows bed sharing is implicated in about half of cot deaths. The risk is greatest if either parent smokes, has been drinking, has taken sedative medication or is "very tired".
'Healthy' baby died after MMR jab
(The Independent 02/12/2008)
A "healthy and robust" baby who died just ten days after being given the MMR jab had earlier suffered a fever fit which can be aggravated by the vaccine, an inquest heard today.
Study casts doubts on links between sharing a bed with baby and infant death syndrome
(Daily Mail 24/11/2008)
A study has cast doubt on links between sharing a bed with your child and sudden infant death syndrome. Parents have previously been warned against the practice. But cot death researchers have found that it is only a risk if other factors are involved. The danger is increased if the parents have been drinking alcohol, smoking, taking drugs or being excessively tired.
Infections linked to cot deaths
(BBC 11/09/2008)
Some cases of cot death may actually be due to a bacterial infection, say researchers. Some experts believe toxins produced by these bacteria could trigger a chemical storm, which overwhelms the baby, resulting in sudden death. There are around 250 sudden infant deaths a year in the UK. The majority are never fully explained.
(The Independent 09/09/2008)
"You don't have much luck, do you?" said the orthodontist, looking down at my baby, asleep in his car-seat. We sat in an uncomfortable silence as I weighed up my response. What I wanted to do was to leap over her desk, shake her Chanel glasses off her nose, and draw blood. I wanted to shout that I was 43, that it was a miracle that my son had been born, and that I considered myself fortunate.
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