Sudden Infant Death Syndrom

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Term Paper Title	Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	14.81

Sudden Infant Death Syndrom

Sudden Infant Death Syndrom

     Sudden infant death syndrome, better known as S.I.D.S., is one of the
leading causes for the inflated infant mortality rate in this country today.  It
is often misunderstood or unrecognizable.  For the most part, the causes of SIDS
are unknown to the general public.  This is changing,  however, as public
awareness is ever increasing.  Thus, the purpose of this paper will be to
explain sudden infant death syndrome and its known or suggested causes.  Also,
the history of SIDS, the problems and emotional suffering that results from the
loss of a child, the toll it takes on the surviving sibling, and possible
counseling or other help that is available for parents who may have lost a child
to SIDS are such areas that will be explored.  Overall I hope to achieve a
better understanding of all these suggested topics within the body of the paper.
     SIDS is also commonly referred to as crib death.  It is said to claim
approximately in the range of 6,000 to 7,000 babies a year within the
continental United States alone, with a slight increase each year (Bergman xi).
This would seem to be an astounding figure, but when the figure of the total
amount of babies that are born in the United States is compared to that of the
number of deaths due to SIDS, it accounts for only a small percentage.  It is a
small percentage that hopefully can be reduced.  And to any parents, the loss of
just one child is definitely one too many, despite of the statistics that are
currently available.  During the first week of life is where most deaths that
are associated with prematurity dominate, SIDS is the leading cause of death
among infants under one year of age, according to Bergman.  It ranks second only
to injuries as the cause of death in children less than fifteen years of age.
An unknown fact is that SIDS takes more lives than other more common diseases
such as leukemia, heart disease or cystic fibrosis (Bergman  24).  Ironically it
was not until the middle of the 1970’s until SIDS was no longer ignored as being
a cause of death.  For the most part, no research was being conducted, leaving
families and victims left to wonder why their babies died (Mandell 129).  For
the family and friends of the family, who also are victims, this was definitely
a tragedy.  Not knowing the cause of death had to have caused physical and
emotional distress in their lives.  Self blame was something that had to exist,
even though there was nothin...

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