1. SIDS By: C.J. Cortes, Richard Dorsainvil, and Aarronn Quinones

2. What is SIDS? • SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome. • It is seen as the cause if the death of the infant remains unexplained. • Approximately 3,000 infants die each year from this disease.

3. Cause of SIDS • There is no known cause for SIDS. • Certain factors such as wrong physical or sleep environments for the infant. • These factors are different for every infant. • A leading hypothesis is that SIDS may reflect a delay or abnormality in the development of nerve cells within the brain which affect the function of the lungs and heart.

4. Cure/Treatments for SIDS? • Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease or treatments for this disease.

5. Symptoms of SIDS • The symptoms are basically nonexistent because deaths occur without any warning.

6. Prevention of SIDS? • There are several ways of preventing this disease from affecting the infant and possibly saving his or her life such as: • Always put a baby to sleep on its back. • Only put babies to sleep in a crib. • Don’t use breathing monitors/products marketed as ways to reduce SIDS.

7. Prevention of SIDS? (cont’d) • Let babies sleep in the same room as the parents (not in the same bed). • Avoid soft bedding materials. • Make sure that the room temperature isn’t too hot or cold. • Offer a baby a pacifier before it goes to sleep.

8. Famous person whose baby died from SIDS • Robert Redford

9. Work Cited • http://www.sids.org/ndefinition.htm • http://www.cjsids.org/grief-and-bereavement/if-youre-bereaved.html • http://www.news-medical.net/news/2004/07/09/3182.aspx • http://www.celebritydiagnosis.com/2011/01/robert-redford-talks-about-sons-death-from-sids/ • SIDS & Infant Death Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family & Friends & Professionals Who Seek to Help Them, Robin Rice and Joani Nelson Horchler Authors, 2003