SIDS deaths among African Americans dropped 80% after 1988?

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know how to find out if accusations against African

Americans of " overlying " or " suffocation " of infants increased in

this time? I'm wondering if fewer deaths are being attributed to SIDS

for black families because more are being accused of manslaughter or

accidental deaths (from suffocation on sleep surfaces).

What set off my google search was the study saying that melanin

provides a degree of protection against mercury poisoning:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h17403r46701423l/

I wondered what that meant for African American autism rates. Is

there less autism among African Americans? Not that this would

necessarily mean that mercury was less dangerous in the case that

mercury was more directly lethal to African American infants

(meaning, less autism because many children simply die from the

exposure). But apparently the SIDS rates for African American and

American Indian children has dropped 80 and 81% respectively since

1988-2004: http://tinyurl.com/ypvbkn

Can this be true?

Yet the SIDS rates for African Americans are said to still be twice

that of caucasion infants. Clearly other environmental factors can

lower an infant's resistance to oxidative stress from vaccines, such

as " environmental racism " (allowing toxic dumping only in " black "

parts of cities, allowing building of polluting industries and power

plants and then not doing enviromental clean-up in these areas, etc.)

Any thoughts on all this mixed up information?

[Guest guest]

I am of the opinion that SIDs is down primarily

because of the phaseout of DTwP in favor of DTaP. The

phaseout began in the early 90's and was almost

universally complete by 1996.

Although the CDC fiercly denied any connection between

SIDs and DPT for years, it was indeed the primary

reason the NVICP was established back in 1986. In

2001, a spokesperson for the CDC finally acknowledged

there was an established link between infant death and

use of the DTwP, although they denied any link between

the DTaP and infant death.

The claims about co-sleeping killing infants is

basically unproven. Since all parties were asleep

when such cases of SIDs occurred, there were in fact

no witnesses. And since SIDs is listed where

examination cannot determine a cause of death, it

would seem to rule out suffocation, which leaves some

pretty obvious signs when autopsies are performed.

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[Guest guest]

Very interesting, thanks.

People have posted news stories on this list of parents today being

accused of overlying when there may have been no evidence of anything

other than SIDS. There's very little news coverage following the

cases, we just hear of the parents being charged for co-sleeping.

Oh, yeah, that co-sleeping controversy. I don't buy the hype. As long

as parents aren't on sedatives or drinking, adults seem to

instinctually prevent themselves from rolling over infants. Our twins

are four and we're STILL doing the " Sears " thing, as we have since

they were born. It's really the only way we have to get any sleep

around here because of the kids' anxiety levels if they wake up to

find themselves alone. As we all know, when kids have language

problems, it's difficult to give the usual reassurances and " train "

them to go it on their own. If they stay asleep, we sneak off to our

own room but we're not making it a battle. You get used to having a

little foot jammed up against your chin and co-sleeping has always

been the least of our worries.

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> I am of the opinion that SIDs is down primarily

> because of the phaseout of DTwP in favor of DTaP. The

> phaseout began in the early 90's and was almost

> universally complete by 1996.

>

> Although the CDC fiercly denied any connection between

> SIDs and DPT for years, it was indeed the primary

> reason the NVICP was established back in 1986. In

> 2001, a spokesperson for the CDC finally acknowledged

> there was an established link between infant death and

> use of the DTwP, although they denied any link between

> the DTaP and infant death.

>

> The claims about co-sleeping killing infants is

> basically unproven. Since all parties were asleep

> when such cases of SIDs occurred, there were in fact

> no witnesses. And since SIDs is listed where

> examination cannot determine a cause of death, it

> would seem to rule out suffocation, which leaves some

> pretty obvious signs when autopsies are performed.

>

>

>

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