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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I apologize - I mistyped. I intended to write "sleeping with kids" rather than just "kids". Obviously children do impact things very much. Where they are sleeping is a minor issue.
Suffocation is not SIDS. There are distinct differences. SIDS is a spontaneous cessation of respiration. Suffocation is something directly blocking respiration. The end result is similar (death due to lack of oxygen!), but it`s not hard to tell them apart.
The jury is still out on whether it is caused by the same things as general apnea (as it appears in adults) - and whether similar treatments would help. It may not be typical apnea, but it`s much more similar to that than any other medical issue...
In other words, at this point - if a baby stops breathing and is stimulated to make it resume breathing or begins breathing again on it`s own, it`s apnea. If it stops breathing and receives no stimulation and doesn`t resume on it`s own, it`s SIDS.
It`s very hard to compare the stages as, clearly, if you`re monitoring the baby you are not going to let it die to check if apnea and SIDS are the same. And if the baby doesn`t die, you can`t be sure if it was SIDS or not...
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I just can't agree with the last part. SIDS is a label for any type of unexplainable sudden death that happens to occur almost always when sleeping, on the stomach or with too many blankets when it's hot. It's like a catch-all term. If they new what caused it it would be called something liek apnea and not some general unspecific term like SIDS.