Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Low Serotonin Levels Might Explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
Researchers may have discovered the cause of more than 2,300 deaths in babies each year. Infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS are said to have had low serotonin levels, which is a chemical in the brain that helps the brain stem regulate breathing, temperature, sleeping, waking and other automatic functions. When infants have low serotonin levels it effects their ability to gage their carbon monoxide levels, normally this would cause the child to roll over to get oxygen; but without that automatic reaction these children don't get the proper oxygen they need. Doctors hope to find new ways to test for this before it's to late in order to protect more newborns lives.
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• Misspelled "Syndrome" in headline
• Run-on sentence should have been split into two or three: "When infants have low serotonin levels it effects their ability to gage their carbon monoxide levels, normally this would cause the child to roll over to get oxygen; but without that automatic reaction these children don't get the proper oxygen they need."
• Used "to" instead of "too" in the last sentence
• Missing plural apostrophe on newborns'. (It would have been better to say "the lives of more newborns.")
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When any baby dies it is extremely sad. Especially with SIDS considering there are so many unanswered questions. I guess I would have never related the two on my own! Very good information!
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