Another interesting Article !!

Dear readers, i received this today in my e-news bulletin and thought i would pass it on!

Sudden infant death “demystified”

Today’s Family News
November 8, 2006

New research suggests that a defect in the brain stem could be why some newborns die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the Globe and Mail reported.

The finding, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, appears to be the closest that scientists have yet come to determining the cause of SIDS, a leading cause of death among seemingly healthy babies during their first year of life.

Co-author Dr. David Paterson, a neuroscientist at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, said this is good news for parents who have lost a child to SIDS – and who may have feared that they were somehow to blame.

“To a certain extent, this demystifies SIDS and indicates that it’s a disease process,” Paterson told the Globe and Mail. “It’s not this mystical event that happens for no apparent reason.”

By performing a series of brain autopsies, researchers found that babies who succumbed to SIDS had an abnormality in their brain stems that could impair vital reflexes such as breathing, blood pressure and arousal from sleep.

Ernest Cutz, a pediatric pathologist at Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, said the study confirms what scientists have long suspected as a possible cause of crib deaths.

“This brings it out of the realm of mystery toward a rational explanation,” he said. “It gives us hope that we will eventually solve it, and possibly prevent it.”

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Love from Sue. tired. sleepy.very healthy baby inside who is very active, exactly as big as 'they' say 'it' should be, yippeee. :)