Description

Cot death, or Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, claims the lives of one baby every day in Britain. In this film Dr Richard Wilson explains that while nobody knows precisely what causes it, there are several theories which are being studied worldwide.

Transcript

Anne Deri Bowen: Cot death is when a baby dies suddenly and unexpectedly, and as we do those steps they have to be refit to the corner and there is a person took examination. Dr. Richard Wilson: Cot death is the unexpected and sudden death of a baby. When there are no queries in for that happening. Anne Deri Bowen: Majority of the babies dies in to courses found an explanation for why that baby has died, and then thus the court does and that turn terms sudden unexpected in from deaths, sudden infant death and infancy sometimes ascertain and sometimes sudden infant death syndrome. Dr. Richard Wilson: you guess a baby who typically is at sleep. You have a baby who typically is around 2, 3, and 4 months of age and some those babies, we think may have difficulties in transferring from one set of reflex is which keep you alive when you are a very little baby turn another side which keeps you alive, when you are older. Anne Deri Bowen: At the moment we know very little stern and we have do know there are some factors that can’t reduce the risk of cot death that courses but that risk factors. But we will soon know that there are still many areas to be researched. And this is the belief among so the professionals so its just going to be one thing that is for that baby it’s going to be coming together the pops up several different things of the multi factorial. Dr. Richard Wilson: It used to be much common over than it is known. It used to be that there was one in say 600 babies dying now it’s about more like 1 in 1600 babies dying. Anne Deri Bowen: The numbers are continue to drop because we trying to promote those reduce the risk message, so they have drop by another 70%, and numbers terms that still means that’s 1 baby dying every day.