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Review
. 2015 May;104(5):444-8.
doi: 10.1111/apa.12966. Epub 2015 Mar 13.

Updated Swedish advice on reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome

Göran Wennergren  1 , Kerstin Nordstrand, Bernt Alm, Per Möllborg, Anna Öhman, Anita Berlin, Miriam Katz-Salamon, Hugo Lagercrantz
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Review

Updated Swedish advice on reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome

Göran Wennergren et al. Acta Paediatr. 2015 May.

Abstract

This article reviews updated advice and factual material from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare on reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Issues covered by the guidance for parents and healthcare professionals include sleeping positions, smoking, breastfeeding, bed sharing and using pacifiers.

Conclusion: The guidelines conclude that infants under three months of age are safest sleeping in their own cot and that a pacifier can be used when they are going to sleep.

Keywords: Apparent life-threatening event; Sudden infant death syndrome; bed sharing; pacifier; prevention.

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Incidence of SIDS in Sweden, 1975–2013. Statistics from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare from 1990 to 2013. The cover pages of previous parental brochures from the National Board of Health and Welfare, Reducing the risk of cot death [Minska risken för plötslig spädbarnsdöd], are inserted. Figure from (ref. 2).
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