wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23071364\/sids-research-hype-science-studies<\/a> Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, is a devastating condition that\u2019s still very poorly understood, so when new research comes out, it can feel like a very big deal \u2014 especially if that research seems to offer a way to save children\u2019s lives. Posts on social media cheered one such new study this week, heralding the research as identifying the reason hundreds of babies die unexpectedly each year. <\/p>\n But even though the study points in a promising direction for future research, it isn\u2019t a panacea, experts say. \u201cThere is nothing definitive about this at all,\u201d said Rachel Moon, a researcher studying sudden infant death syndrome at the University of Virginia, in an email to The Verge<\/em>. The surge in interest around the study<\/a> is understandable, she said, but isn\u2019t warranted. <\/p>\n SIDS refers to<\/a> the sudden and often unexplained death of an infant one years old or younger. It is largely a mystery, and doctors don\u2019t have good answers as to why it happens. Parents of infants who die from unexplained causes are often the focus of suspicion<\/a>, which can make the parents feel even more guilty and bereaved than they already do. Medical research into SIDS <\/strong>has, for the past few decades, focused on prevention: there\u2019s an association between how infants are placed down to sleep and SIDS, so parents are encouraged to place babies on their backs and on firm surfaces. <\/p>\n But even with safe sleeping campaigns, which have been effective at reducing infant deaths since the late 1980s<\/a>, rates of deaths from SIDS have stayed around the same<\/a> in the United States for years. Without good explanations for why the deaths occur, parents of young children often spend months fearful it could happen to their infant. <\/p>\n
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