SIDS

[tarabeara]

Hi-

 

I'm currently doing research. I have lived with Tourette's and Asperger's, with a touch of OCD, and probably ADD for as long as I remember, but I didn't know my "problems" had names until a year and a half ago. I've given birth to two children. I completely breastfed them, and I didn't get either vaccinated. We eat healthfully, and we're Christians who follow God's dietary laws. We're into organic eating, herbs, etc. Well, at 12 days of age my second son stopped breathing and wasn't resuscitated until after half an hour. We made the heartwrenching decision to remove him from life support at 29 days of age. They couldn't call it SIDS, since he was resuscitated (they're calling it an ALTE).

Well, since then I've done a lot of research. I am now convinced whatever genes are responsible for Tourette's and related disorders (along with the apnea) are the same things responsible for my son's death.

 

I am curious to know how many of you with Tourette's in your family have cases of SIDS in your family. I am also interested in cases of SIDS in families with Asperger's, autism, etc.

 

~Tara~

[Chemar]

Hello Tara

 

my deepest sympathies to you and your husband.

 

I have never heard of any connection between TS and sudden infant death syndrome so I honestly cant comment on that. I am not sure why TS, which is usually not manifest until children are older, and is not a life threatening disorder per se, would in any way have contributed to this, but as I say, it is something I have never heard linked before and so really have no qualified opinion.

 

again, my heart goes out to you

[kim]

So so sorry for your loss. You may be interested in this

 

http://www.enzymestuff.com/magnesium.htm

 

The psycholeptic sedative effects of darkness, like those of magnesium, rely on direct membraneous and oxidant actions, neural mediated effects (i.e. stimulation of inhibitory neuromodulators such as GABA and taurine), and on antagonism of neuroactive gases (CO and NO). Darkness therapyper se, partial substitutive therapy with melatonin and with their mimicking agents (Mg, L-Tryptophan,Taurine) apply to all the chronopathological forms of magnesium depletion with decreased production of melatonin: sleep disorders, migraine, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, some forms of asthma and of sudden infant death syndrome. Further research should assess the importance of the chronopathological forms of magnesium depletion in the physiopathology of these disorders.