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Although the rate of SIDS has decreased by 50% since the Safe to Sleep campaign started in 1994, [4] an unintended consequence was that babies missed out on the twelve or so hours they used to spend in the prone position while asleep, and there was a sharp increase in plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) in infants. [2]
The sopite syndrome (/ s oʊ ˈ p aɪ t /; from Latin sopire 'to put to sleep') [1] is a neurological disorder that relates symptoms of fatigue, drowsiness, and mood changes to prolonged periods of motion. [2] The sopite syndrome has been attributed to motion-induced drowsiness such as that experienced by a baby when rocked. [1]
Catathrenia or nocturnal groaning is a sleep-related breathing disorder, consisting of end-inspiratory apnea (breath holding) and expiratory groaning during sleep.It describes a rare condition characterized by monotonous, irregular groans while sleeping. [1]
Vomiting (also known as emesis, puking and throwing up) [a] is the involuntary, forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. [ 1 ]
Baby colic, also known as infantile colic, is defined as episodes of crying for more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week, for three weeks in an otherwise healthy child. [1] Often crying occurs in the evening. [1] It typically does not result in long-term problems. [4]
A child was hospitalized after being hit by one of several drones that crashed into each other during a Saturday night aerial holiday show in Orlando, authorities said. The boy and his family were ...
A Kentucky man admitted to killing his 3-month-old son when the child would not stop crying, saying he was "just tired," WLKY reports. Cody Bates has been charged with the death of the baby.
The area postrema in the brain is responsible for inducing vomiting when poisons are detected, and for resolving conflicts between vision and balance. When feeling motion but not seeing it (for example, in the cabin of a ship with no portholes), the inner ear transmits to the brain that it senses motion, but the eyes tell the brain that ...