SIDS

SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after the performance of an complete investigation, including an autopsy, and examination of the scene of death, and a review of the case history. SIDS occurs during an infant’s sleep, either nighttime or naptime. Ninety percent of SIDS cases occur by six months of age. Most SIDS cases occur between two and four months of age. SIDS does occur below the age of one month and past six months, but is uncommon. Most SIDS infants are discovered between 10:00 P.M. and 10:00 A.M. The peak hour seems to be around 5:00 A.M. Also SIDS is more likely to occur on weekends and holidays and during the cold weather months. SIDS is the leading cause of death in infants between one month and one year, accounting for approximately forty percent of infant deaths in the United States (Sears 15). For unknown reasons, SIDS is higher in males than in females, by a ratio of 1.5 to 1. The increased incidence of SIDS among African Americans than among Caucasians is thought to be sids, infants, baby, babies, risk, sears, mothers, during, sleep, parents, higher, death, breathing, likely, baby’s, age, after, prenatal, one, ger, cause, care, about, occur, months, environment, while, oxygen, infant, group, die, control, been, sleeping, reduce