what causes SIDS?

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Answer by Francine
Submitted on 1/4/2004
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The co factors are precautions that experts think reduce the risk of SIDS, they are finding out all the time though that many babies don't fit these risk categories and they are still passing of SIDS. The truth is that they don't know why, and that in the end it'll probably be different reasons in different infants. There are so many regulatory functions centred in the brain that we just don't know enough about yet............ I just wanted to comment on the suffocation issue that was mentioned in the last response............ they do rule out suffocation in SIDS death before it's ruled SIDS.......SIDS is not suffocation. A baby cannot just soffocate in their sleep naturally either. We all have mechanisms in our body that kick in and alert us if we were in danger of suffocation....... we DON'T just suffocate in our sleep.

Answer by neil dyer
Submitted on 5/14/2004
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I was told at the time of losing my child at the age of 7 months that....... A baby or very young infant for the first 24 months are on a massive learning curve. they learn more in 24 months then they will for the next 10 years of their lives. Their brain is on an overload of information everything you try and learn a child during the day gets taken in and stored away, during sleep these things are being processed in their tiny brains causing you child (if you watched them sleep) to have massive amounts of r.e.m (rapid eye movement). i was simply told that the brain is just a technical muscle trying to make sense of everything thats happen during the day. like all things in the body if you overwork them the eventually brake /hurt and you need to stop whatever you are doing at the time. if you pull a muscle in your back you stop bending! the brain is no different, if it is too overloaded it will shut itself down, as adults we can control this but we do get headaches which is a sign of over working. you must have suffered a headache when you are concentrating on something for so long and when you do you stop. this is how we control things. A baby does not know how to do this! there is too many s.i.d's in this world for it to be unknown for the reason as said in earlier replies you dont just suffocate, it is a traumatic time in eveyones life who have suffured such a loss, i dont know how true what i was told was right, BUT it does help you look at it with a more open mind, if this is the way it happens you can be sure that none of those little angels suffured in any way, no pain would have come to then. no one is to blame.you could stay awake all night everynight holding them in your arms everynight and this could still happen, there is no special reason why it happens, please dont take this as a warning and feel like you need to not play or teach your baby, its alot more to it then that, everything they look at everything they smell everything they taste they try and learn about. sorry to drag on.......... just love your babies forever.... i still do a very very very loving dad neil xx if you want to contact me please email me neildyer@msn.com

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Question by scoobydoo
Submitted on 8/12/2003
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what causes SIDS?

Answer by melanie hollin
Submitted on 12/8/2003
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I can't answer your ? and I don't think any one else on here can either because even though scientist can come up with cures for deadly deseases they have failed yet to come up with the answer to your question they can give you a list of things to do to prevent sids but cannot tell you the exact cause of sids (if a bay rolls on their stomache and puts their face face down...its suffocation) but if they go to sleep and just don't wake up they cannot tell you the cause of it We all hope research gives us the answer to this but until they do we can not even begin with a cure

Answer by trang
Submitted on 8/18/2004
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WHAT CAUSES SIDS?

Answer by jish69
Submitted on 8/31/2005
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u guys are useless

Answer by rewyn
Submitted on 3/13/2006
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I'm a survivor of SIDS, I had stopped breathing for almost 2 minutes as an infant. The funny thing is I remember the day. It got quiet, cold, then dark. Sorry for your loss Neil. Luckily my parents revived me.

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