Letter: Risk of cot deaths.

Cot deaths: the aftermath.

Unexpected postneonatal deaths ( cot deaths ) due to recognizable disease PATRICIA

McWeeny, P. M., and Emery, J. L. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 191. Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease. At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this ...

Role of infection in cot deaths.

"'Cot deaths" are estimated to account for over 20% of the mortality in the age group concerned, more than 1,400 such fatalities having occurred in England and Wales in 1955 (Banks, 1958). The infants are found unexpectedly dead in the cot, having been placed there, generally the previous night, either well or suffering from an apparently trivial upset that usually had given no cause for alarm ...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease.

At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this group of children differs in no way from children who are successfully treated. The factors leading to the death of these children appear to lie in the gener...

Vaccination and cot deaths in perspective.

In 1985 twin boys simultaneously succumbed to sudden unexpected deaths two to three hours after vaccination with diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP). This occurrence again raises the question of whether an association of sudden infant death (SID) with vaccination is other than temporal. Taking the incidence of SID in conjunction with rates of infant vaccination in the United Kingdo...