Comments on: Using a fan may decrease risk of SIDS http://www.blisstree.com/articles/using-a-fan-may-decrease-risk-of-sids-631/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tjwriter http://www.blisstree.com/articles/using-a-fan-may-decrease-risk-of-sids-631/comment-page-1/#comment-229288 tjwriter Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:34:31 +0000 http://www.wombwithin.com/2008/10/07/using-a-fan-may-decrease-risk-of-sids/#comment-229288 That's interesting to read about for sure, but it makes me wonder about something else I read about. Over at Baby Center in the Dec. 2008 club (my due date club), someone had started a thread on mattress wrapping. There's a theory out there that the fumes given off by new mattresses are one of the underlying causes of SIDS. Which is why the sleeping on the back has helped so much. The infant is getting better ventilation away from the fumes by being faced away from the mattress rather than directly next to it. I would venture to guess that having something over the head while being face down would only make fumes it worse. So there are some people out there who practice mattress wrapping as a way to keep the fumes away. The fan for ventilation theory holds with the mattress theory according to logic. Better air circulation would be a good thing. That’s interesting to read about for sure, but it makes me wonder about something else I read about. Over at Baby Center in the Dec. 2008 club (my due date club), someone had started a thread on mattress wrapping.

There’s a theory out there that the fumes given off by new mattresses are one of the underlying causes of SIDS. Which is why the sleeping on the back has helped so much. The infant is getting better ventilation away from the fumes by being faced away from the mattress rather than directly next to it. I would venture to guess that having something over the head while being face down would only make fumes it worse.

So there are some people out there who practice mattress wrapping as a way to keep the fumes away.

The fan for ventilation theory holds with the mattress theory according to logic. Better air circulation would be a good thing.

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