Monday, April 24, 2017

Sleep on the couch with the baby often ends in death

Experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics found that even with a short co-sleeping baby on the sofa can be extremely dangerous. In particular, when the kids This dramatically increases the risk of sudden death.

 Sleep on the couch with the baby often ends in death  as a sleeping child


  Doctors give statistics they received at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Its data It indicates that in recent years kids often become victims of the syndrome sudden infant death - death of a child under 1 year for no apparent reason. This syndrome is already leading the list of the main factors of infant mortality. But since 1990, the incidence of SIDS infant deaths increased by more than 50 percent.
 
  After analyzing the problem, Experts have concluded that babies often die because of unsafe environment during sleep. This baby sleep on the couch was isolated experts noted, as a factor of greatest risk.
 
  Pediatricians cite the following data. During the period of 2004-2012 years in twenty-four states in the US have been fixed more than 9,000 infant deaths. A substantial portion (12, 9 percent) came in cases where kids slept on the couch. The lion's share is sad statistics (72 percent) accounted for the smallest - children from 0 to 3 months.
 
  Experts stress that Even a short-term sleep on the couch with the baby may end fatally, so that the child should sleep at least in the same room with their parents, but a separate bed.
"Death during sleep on the couch more often advancing in If this kid had shared a bed with someone from adults. Thus, even if parents of children laid to sleep on their backs, in most cases, death Baby advancing from the fact that in a dream, he turned face down, "- pediatricians describe the situation.

They also note that this kind of infant death is particularly common in families with smokers parents. (READ MORE)


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