Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Sudden Infant Death Syndorme Imagine a family that just had a beautiful child and for the first couple of months the child seems perfectly fine. Until one day the mother notices the baby has stopped breathing, they rush to the hospital only to find their child has suffered from SIDS-Sudden Infant death Syndrome. SIDS is the unexpected death of an infant, usually during their sleep, and who is less than one year of age. It is not as common as in the past, but it still happens today. Although this syndrome does not have a definite cause, scientists have theories as to what triggers it. Along with this, scientists discovered important prevention tips for parents. SIDS continues to be researched to find an exact reason for its cause. Many foundations
When an infant dies unexpectedly they are given the classification of SUID for their death. After a thorough investigation of the child’s death “SUID” can be changed to either suffocation, entrapment, infection, ingestion, metabolic diseases, cardiac arrhythmias, trauma, or finally SIDS. Suffocation is given as a death explanation when the cause of the baby’s death was that no air reached their lung which is not the same as entrapment, because in this case the infant is trapped between two objects not allowing him/her to breathe. The classification of ingestion is given when the baby takes something to the mouth blocking its air, infection is a bacteria or virus making breathing difficult for the baby, and consecutively the metabolic disease and cardiac arrhythmia as well as trauma affect the breathing patterns. SIDS is the designated name given when “the death cannot be explained even after a full investigation that includes a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history” (Safe to Sleep). Although these other categories have been created SIDS still remains without a definite explanation for it
In between the many of them one specific one is the Safe to Sleep campaign started by the NICHD in 1994 (safe to sleep 2013). Consecutively, in 1998 this campaign had outreached more than 250.000 childcare centers and licensed childcare homes (Safe to Sleep, 2013). In 1999 the famous Johnson & Johnson Company of baby product allied with the Safe to Sleep campaign and included brochures in its first aid kits for new parents. Another famous company of baby products is The Pampers Parenting Institute; this company set the Safe to Sleep logo and message on newborn diapers boxes or packaging. In 2005 “The Healthy Native Babies Project Workgroup, led by the NICHD, starts the Healthy Native Babies Project to create culturally appropriate materials and messages for use in the five IHS regions of the Northern Tier of the United States with the highest SIDS rates” (Safe to Sleep,