As parents, you must have knowledge about
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to protect your babies.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), likes
as its name, is condition that infants under 1 year old die suddenly and it is
difficult to explain reason. This disease makes many parents worry because it
can occur at any time without warning signs, even for babies who have good
health and normal development’s speed of physic.
Therefore, to avoid unfortunate risk for
infants, things which parents can do including:
Put infants lie on their back when sleeping
This method is simple but the most
effective that you can do to protect your babies.
Lying on the stomach when sleeping is the
most dangerous culprit that makes newborn babies gets sudden death. Research
proven that rate of sudden death in infant by prone sleep is much higher than
other reasons. The reason that babies are easy to die suddenly when lying on
the stomach is their weight puts pressure on their mouth in this position,
which causes difficulty for the operation of respiratory system because
breathing is narrowed down.
Lying on the stomach when sleeping is the most dangerous culprit that makes newborn babies gets sudden
death.
Put babies on hard mattress
Let infants sleep on hard mattress, avoid
too soft blankets, water mattress, sheepskin mattress, or other too soft
surfaces. Moreover, mothers should not put lots of pillows or toys around
babies to avoid affecting their respiratory operations.
Breastfeed if possible
Newborn babies who are breastfeed can halve
the risk of SIDS, even though experts have not explained reason yet. Someone
said that, breast milk can protect babies from infection.
Pacifier
Researchers recommend that parents should
let their infants suck pacifier in order to prevent SIDA. When put babies in
cradle, you should give your babies pacifier. But when they get deep sleep, you
must take it out because when sleeping deeply, they can swallow it; that is
very dangerous.
Sucking
pacifier when sleeping help kids prevent sudden death.
Do not let infants be too hot
Too high temperature can increase risk of
SDIS. During sleeping, you should let infants wear comfortable clothes which
are not so thick, and keep temperature in room always cool and pleasant.
If it’s cold, instead of covering blanket,
just wear babies long-sleeve shirt, long pants to keep sufficient warm because
they can turn positions during sleeping and the blanket can cover on face
causing suffocation.
Let infants sleep on private bed
The risk of death by suffocation in under
8-month-old babies when they are co-sleeping with parents is nearly 40 times as
high as those who sleep on private bed. The most dangerous situation is that babies
sleep with drunken parents.
As a result, you should let babies sleep in
private cradle putting next to parents’ bed so as to be convenient for caring
them at night.
Let
infants sleep on private bed
