Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls.
Experts have covet known that impetuous infant expiry syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame. In fact, the researchers found that infant boys are more by far aroused from snore than girls. "Since the incidence of SIDS is increased in male infants, we had expected the masculine infants to be more difficult to arouse from sleep and to have fewer full arousals than the female infants," superior author Rosemary SC Horne, a senior research fellow at the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, said in a statement release.

And "In fact, we found the opposite when infants were younger at two to four weeks of age, and we were surprised to awaken that any differences between the male and female infants were resolved by the maturity of two to three months, which is the most vulnerable age for SIDS". About 60 percent of infants who meet one's Maker from SIDS are male.

In the study, published in the Aug 1, 2010 arise of Sleep, the Australian team tested 50 healthy infants by blowing a advertisement of air into their nostrils in order to wake them from sleep. At two to four weeks of age, the guts of the puff of air needed to arouse the infants was much lower in males than in females. This rest was no longer significant by ages two to three months, when SIDS risk peaks.

The frequency of arousals was like for girls and boys at both ages. "A failure to arouse from drop is involved in the fatal pathway to an infant dying suddenly and unexpectedly," explained Horne, who is also spokeswoman director of the Monash Institute of Medical Research at Monash University in Melbourne.

So why the 60/40 correlation of male to female SIDS victims? Horne and her colleagues suggested that parents may more often try to dispassionate restless male infants by putting them to sleep on their stomachs, which could help explain the higher scold of SIDS among males. Placing babies on their back to sleep reduces the risk of SIDS.

So "our ponder has highlighted the fact that SIDS is multi-factorial and that at present it is not possible to predict the deadly bloc of internal and environmental factors that will results in SIDS find out more. Therefore, parents should be aware of the known hazard factors and avoid them as best as possible by practicing the safe sleeping guidelines of sleeping babies on their backs, making reliable their heads cannot be covered by bedding and keeping them free from cigarette smoke both before and after birth".