RJA #8

RJA #8a: Quotation, Paraphrase, and Summary

"The baby looks normal during the day; there's nothing that would tell you that baby is going to die of SIDS that night," says Kinney, who has studied SIDS for more than 20 years. "There's something about sleep that unmasks the defect, which we believe is in serotonin circuits: the baby experiences some kind of stress during sleep, such as rebreathing carbon dioxide in the face-down position or increased temperature from over-bundling, that cannot be compensated for by the defective brainstem circuits, and the baby then goes on to die."


The Children's Hospital in Boston has found that mishaps in the serotonin of babies has been linked to one of the causes of SIDS. "There's something about sleep...which we believe is in serotonin circuits: the baby experiences some kind of stress during sleep [which can include] rebreathing carbon dixoide...."

A baby that dies from SIDS will not show signs early in the day, the baby will appear to be perfectly fine. When a baby goes to fall asleep at night there can be several factors that can be cause for SIDS. The low serotonin levels can trigger a happenstance that brings the baby to die.

Research has shown that low serotonin levels can be a factor in why babies die from SIDS. Although, a baby can seem perfectly normal during the day when they doze off to bed that can trigger a time where the baby is overly dressed or blanketed causing the baby to overheat or being stuck on their stomach breathing in carbon dioxide. This can not be overcome because of the lack of serotonin the the brainstem which causes the baby to die.

RJA #8b: Evaluation Check-

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