Help your baby fight ear infections.Parents know the wisdom of putting their babies to sleep on their backs as a way to prevent sudden infant death syndrome sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or crib death, sudden, unexpected, and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant under one year of age (usually between two weeks and eight months old). (SIDS SIDS sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS abbr. sudden infant death syndrome SIDS, n See syndrome, sudden infant death. ). Now new research has found that sending them off to dreamland dream·land n. 1. An ideal or imaginary land. 2. A state of sleep. Noun 1. dreamland - a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination dreamworld, never-never land face up may prevent many fevers, stuffy noses, or ear infections, too. A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ) found that back sleepers needed to visit the doctor less often for ear infections than stomach sleepers. "Ear infections are quite common in infants and young children," says Howard Hoffman, director of NIH's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics program, "and as many parents know, can be a cause of concern, especially when they occur during the first few months of life. This is more evidence for parents to put infants to sleep on their backs." National Institutes of Health |
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