biospace.com/article/researchers-answer-how-and-why-infants-die-from-sids

Sudden Infant Death syndrome is the leading cause of infant mortality in the western world, with nearly half of all infant deaths being attributed to it

Shout-out those niggas

Thats huge

According to Mayo Clinic, many in the medical community suspected this phenomenon could be caused by a defect in the part of the brain that controls arousal from sleep and breathing. The theory was that if the infant stopped breathing during sleep, the defect would keep the child from startling or waking up.

Insane, the baby quite literally doesn't "remember" it needs to breathe during sleep

Really awesome news 🙏

crazy cuz i always thought it was more of an umbrella term for the event itself but the fact theres actually biomarkers for it is wild

That’s great news

hopefully with some type of supplementation we can really lower the rates of sids now

Its pretty f***ing amazing some of the stuff they can solve with infants.

baby blood

Babies were out here dying?

Suddenly

abortions are real (unfortunately)

Incredible findings by an incredibly determined doctor

though it seems like this may only cover a portion of SIDS cases. It is such a widely diagnosed cause of death that it may have been ascribed to incidents in which this protein malfunction wasn’t the culprit. Still some work to be done i’m sure

I have a nephew pass from it

I’m sorry for your loss brother

A great story overall

“While safe sleep practices are still important for protecting infants, many children whose parents took every precaution still died from SIDS. These parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death.

‘Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.’”

Fantastic

:elon:

Soo woop 👶

nice

One of my brothers died from this. Finally some good news.

So like...they forget to breathe in their sleep?

not just that but they don't agitate in reaction to it

That's great