Abstract:
:The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is responsible for the death of 10,000 infants annually in the U.S.A. The cause of these deaths is not known; all SIDS infants studied died during sleep in a silent fashion and there are no specific lesions observable post mortem. It may be of significance, however, that nearly half of SIDS infants had a respiratory tract infection in the last two weeks of life while forty percent had bloody froth over their mouths when found, presumably pulmonary oedema fluid. It is hypothesis that improper feeding or diarrhoea may likewise be involved in SIDS and that enterotoxins from putrefactive products are the precipitating event in this syndrome.
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Med Hypothesesjournal_title
Medical hypothesesauthors
Reid GMdoi
10.1016/0306-9877(87)90195-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-03-01 00:00:00pages
303-7issue
3eissn
0306-9877issn
1532-2777pii
0306-9877(87)90195-2journal_volume
22pub_type
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