Health Buzz: SIDS Risk and Other Health News

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Did you see the horrible news about today's Miami shootings with the masked gunman?

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sleeping with a pacifier helps reduce risks

anne of RI 4:31PM October 09, 2008

how come when a baby dies of sids they are always perfectly healthy?

shayla 2:04AM October 09, 2008

now after the 50th study of aids and gays, can we get onto more mature studies? Why dwell on the obvious? And how many studies are we going to focus on babies? sleep deprived parents are going to put the kid to sleep any way they can just to try and get sleep. no one wants their baby to die but if it sleeps in a position better? it seems these studies lack any practical real life knowledge. they always seem so skewed. then unfortunately we have to do another study and the same studies emerge over and over without any real conclusions. perhaps there is a more holographic reason: fighting in the home, dogs licking the babies, could be any number of reasons not just positioning. could be emotional too. why only focus on the same thing over and and over.

ka mi of MN 1:39AM October 09, 2008

Why are we still studying this? Whatever mild effect circumcision may have on disease transmission, it DOES NOT prevent AIDS. Most of the half-million American men who have died of AIDS were circumcised at birth.
The idea of amputating an exquisite body part to fight disease is as ridiculous as it is offensive. You know, there are studies showing female genital cutting fights AIDS. The very thought is sick and wrong, for either gender.
Foreskin feels REALLY good.

Ron Low of IL 12:47AM October 09, 2008

Pacifiers and back sleep decrease Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) in infants. SWS is when most infants die of SIDS. SWS is necessary for human development and learning. The symptoms of SWS deprivation are very similar to Autism. Could it be that for a slight risk reduction in SIDS we have caused an epidemic in Autism and ADHD?

Tom of NJ 3:08PM October 08, 2008

Pacifiers actually derease the risk of SIDS as found in the article American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Guidelines to Reduce Incidence of SIDS
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514267

DrRick of CA 2:21PM October 08, 2008

THe articel supportng the use of pacifiere reducing the risk of SIDS can be found at:
American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Guidelines to Reduce Incidence of SIDS
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514267

Richard Blumenthal MD, FAAP of CA 2:17PM October 08, 2008