SIDS. Syndrome of sudden death in children

For infants, there is a certain risk of dying from a disease such as sudden death syndrome. A momentary lethal outcome is prevented only by preventive measures, which will be discussed in this article. This is so: if a child experiences difficulty breathing in a dream, there is a risk of blockage of the airways, which leads to tragic consequences. In no way to detect a tendency to this anomaly in doctors has not yet happened. Even autopsy does not give doctors a hint of the cause of the ailment. The study of the disease began in 1950, and only in 1969 the term "sudden death syndrome" appeared, and the first diagnosis was made.

Since this phenomenon is observed only in infants, the pain later changed its name to the syndrome of sudden infant death. According to statistics in Russia, 0.43% of 1000 newborns die from it. After the organization of the fund dealing with this problem, the death rate decreased by 74%, but the problem was not completely solved.

The syndrome of sudden death can arise for the following reasons.

1. Sleep of the baby on the stomach is the most common cause of death. Because of this, pediatricians changed the recommendation that the baby should sleep in this position. All specialists now recommend laying the child on the back. As a result, the death rate decreased three-fold
2. Your baby is too warmly wrapped up while sleeping. You can not do this in any case, pediatricians recommend a night-bag of optimum thermal insulation for your baby's sleep.
3. If your child is sleeping on too soft surfaces. Doctors do not recommend putting the baby on the couch or too soft a bed. For unknown reasons, sudden death syndrome may occur in this case.
4. If one of the children in the family has already experienced critical situations, such as cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest, this also increases the likelihood of SIDS occurring in other babies.
5. If the mother of the child has already suffered from serious illnesses before delivery.
6. If the mother has an interval between pregnancies less than 1 year. If the woman had miscarriages before the birth, this can also contribute to SIDS.
7. Smoking and drinking of alcohol by the mother of the child, as well as the use of light and heavy drugs.
8. Heavy labor, after them the chance that SIDS will occur, increases by 7 times.
9. If the birth is too long, it increases the chance of death of a baby 2 times.
10. If the mother of the child had many stresses before giving birth, the child also experiences stress. In such situations, the likelihood of death increases very much.
11. If the mother did not report the child.
12. Complete lack of breastfeeding and, in this regard, the artificial feeding of a child.
13. Boys are more at risk than girls, according to statistics, in 61% of cases they die.
14. The age of children who die from sudden death is from 2 to 4 months.
15. In case you sleep in different rooms.

Doctor I.M. Vorontsov in 1997 introduced recommendations on how effective methods can avoid such trouble as sudden death syndrome. All methods are described in the educational medical literature.

Ways to avoid SIDS logically follow from the above prerequisites for the disease. Here is a detailed list that will help you save your child.

1. You should put your child to sleep on your back, not on your stomach.
2. The surface on which your baby will sleep should be tight.
3. Put your child to sleep in a special sleeping bag, in which there will be an optimal temperature. You can not tighten the baby too tightly.
4. Sleep with the child in the same room, let it lie in the crib next to you.
5. Do not smoke near the baby.
6. Necessarily to feed the baby with the breast

Observing these recommendations, you can protect your child from this terrible diagnosis. In no case should not be afraid, it is better to be careful and accurate parents and to worry about their beloved children. Only in this case, you will be able to protect your family from trouble and grief.