What is SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ?
SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or cot death is defined as a sudden death of the infant that is unexplained either by the baby’s history, a post mortem examination or the examination of the scene of death. Although rare, it is a major cause of infant death between the age of 2 weeks and 12 months. The risk of average baby dying of SIDS is very small – about 1.7 in 1000. Researchers are now convinced that SIDS baby ,only appear healthy , but actually they have some underlying defect, that predisposes them to sudden death. At high risk are those babies , who have survived a very serious , life threatening event related to injury or accident during which they have stopped breathing, turned blue and required resuscitation. At lesser are small or premature infants or those from multiple birth. SIDS strikes males more often than female infants.Babies of women who have poor ante-natal care or who have smoked during pregnancy, or have severe aneamia during pregnancy are susceptible to SID
