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All of these are clues which have brought scientists to the startling answer to the question, "Why do babies die of SIDS?"
For unknown reasons, parents of healthy babies wake only to find to their horror
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Little is known of this tragic malady except for statistics: SIDS is more common in babies from lower socio-economic classes.
A second-born child is twice as likely to die from it as a first-born.
A third-born child is even more likely to die from SIDS.
More cases occur in the winter months.
A higher percentage of babies die from SIDS while sleeping in their parent's bed than in their cribs.
The incidence of SIDS deaths is higher in Day Care Centers.
SIDS usually strikes infants between the ages of 1 month to 1 year.
73% of babies who died from SIDS were found sleeping on their stomachs.
It was a New Zealand pediatrician who discovered this last statistic while questioning the mothers of SIDS babies. Using this statistic alone, he recommended infants be put to sleep on their backs instead of their stomachs.
This works beyond a doubt. Countries who have adopted this "Back to Sleep" recommendation have seen a 38% drop in the rate of SIDS. The problem with this recommendation:
No one knew why this works and, After 5 months of age most babies can roll over, putting themselves at risk.
Clues to a Present Epidemic from a Past One
In Italy in the 1890's more than one thousand babies died in a mysterious epidemic.
A green pigment called Paris Green was all the rage at that time and was used extensively in fabrics in Italian homes. This pigment was made from a chemical process which contained arsenic. Arsenic
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60 years later, in 1955 this knowledge helped diagnose the sudden illness of the American Ambassador to Italy, Claire Booth Luce. She became seriously ill while sleeping in her room at the embassy. She was suffering from arsine poisoning. Mildew feeding on arsenic in her wallpaper's paste and ceiling paint had created the gas which made her seriously ill, ending her career.
In 1989 an English chemist, Dr. Barry Richardson studied the mattresses on which 200 infants had died of SIDS. He was searching for gasses thought to be causing these deaths.
Being a renowned chemist with 247 published scientific papers to his credit; Dr. Richardson knew mildew and mold feeding on chemicals often produces gasses. The most common being ammonia created from microbes feeding on nitrogen.
Phosphorus is a common element. Its gas
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The suspected gasses in the SIDS deaths were; arsine from arsenic, phosphine from phosphorus, and stibine from the element antimony.
The lethal effects of arsine are well known due to the disastrous epidemic in Italy.
Phosphine has properties similar to mustard gas. The Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says of phosphine, "Phosphine is used as an insecticide for the fumigation of grains, animal feed
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The U.S. Dept. of Labor's website lists the symptoms of stibine as: "Headaches; weakness; nausea, abdominal pain; lumbar pain; hemoglobinuria, hematuria; hemolytic anemia; jaundice; lung irritation." The Health effects: "Acute Systemic Toxicity."
An Idea + A Simple Invention = Lives Saved
In 1986 Dr. J. T. Sprott
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Finally an Explanation for the Statistics!
Mildew and mold need two things to thrive: warmth and moisture. Both are found in abundance in crib mattresses with the infants supplying both. The longer a mattress is in use the more time fungus spores and microbes have to take hold and grow.
Modern mattresses, usually made of polyvinyl chloride burn readily and break down into their original components, releasing gasses. This is called out-gassing. Arsenic
Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 2018 Elite Grey Black Shoes Sale , antimony, and phosphorus, along with even more chemicals are added to mattresses to slow this breakdown and as a fire retardant.
Dr. Sprott, Dr. Richardson and other scientists surmised that molds and mildew in the infant's mattresses were feeding on the added chemicals causing the formation of toxic gasses. The babies were breathing in these gasses. Not being able to move away or lift themselves, they died.
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