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Show Page A8 THE DAILY HLRALD, (www.HaiiTheHeraId.com). Provo, I'tah, Monday. April 23, 2001 episodes, which are normal. But the leading SIDS theory suggests that affected babies have subtle brainstem abnormalities that block normal arousal or alarm reflexes. Dr. Hannah Kinney, a SIDS Continued from A ( 1 Now, however, the numbers have flattened, surprising researchers and reignit-intheir passion to find a cause. Many gathered over the in weekend suburban Chicago at the SIDS Alliance national meeting to compare notes and offer what advice is available on this bewildering syndrome. The death of Dominic Miller eight months ago is typically baffling. Dominic was 4 12 months when he died during the summer, though most SIDS deaths occur in winter and fall. Ninety percent occur between the ages of 2 months and 6 months. Mother Kathleen Miller, of West Peoria, 111., says her son had been "laughing and cooing and smiling" before she put him to bed on Aug. 9. Aware of the link between SIDS and stomach-sleepinshe said she carefully laid Dominic on his back. When her husband, Marc, checked his son just 20 minutes later, Dominic was face down, limp and not breathing. His body was still warm, but bloody foam surrounded his nose, meaning his vital a organs had shut down telltale sign of SIDS. "It's like the ultimate shock," Mrs. Miller, 27, said. "You just go from a totally healthy baby to 20 minutes later he's gone; to two hours later (asking) can we donate his organs." Though it was once known as crib and cot death, SIDS can afflict babies sleeping on any surface. The last big breakthrough occurred nearly a decade ago, after researchers discovered .a : g neuropathologist at Harvard and at Children's Hospital in Boston, developed her theory during several years of research on ani- CHARLES BENNETTThe SIDS mystery: Dr. Jean Silvestri works k who slept on their stomachs. It prompted the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend in 1992 that babies sleep on their backs. The academy helped launch a nationwide "Back to Sleep" campaign two years later, and SIDS deaths from dropped 40 percent 4,660 in 1992 to about 2,800 in 1998. The numbers have remained fairly constant. Dr. Warren Guntheroth of the University of Washington says some SIDS deaths are caused by particular vulnerability to heat stress, which is most likely to occur when babies are on their stomachs and The main symptom is sweating, but body temperature doesn't have to rise for the stress to be Guntheroth says. In an article in April's over-swaddle- d. Pediatrics journal theroth said a public Guncam- paign warning about heat Controversial Carpal Tunnel Syndrome hotline has recently revealed a 'missing' location that is often overlooked by physicians when they diagnose and treat their carpal tunnel syndrome patients. To what your doctor doesn't know about carpal tunnel syndrome, please call the carpal tunnel syndrome hotline toll-fre- AswKiattfJ Press her Kamari Jackson, at Rush Presbyterian-St- . Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Silvestri is studying infants for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. considered to be high-ris- the high SIDS risk to babies Continued from A 1 restaurants are already rented for the games. But those already reserved are the larger eateries that represent about 60 percent to 70 percent of Park City's seating, said Paul Brown, of the Wasatch Brew Pub. mals and infants. Many other restaurants says certain still are in Kinney negotiations for chemibabies are born with the Olympics. cal defects in the lower porBut restaurateurs and tion of the brain stem called officials promise .that the ventral medulla, which city won't go hungry. tourists is involved in alarm reflex"We won't force everyone blood es. It regulates presto bring a sack lunch," said sure and breathing during Shawn Stinson, spokesman sleep, and controls how the for the Park City Visitors low to baby responds oxygen' Bureau. blood levels and high To make up for the lack of amounts of carbon dioxide. tables for tourists, Park City Lack of oxygen and excesrestaurants will be selling sive carbon dioxide can occur food on the street their when a baby is sleeping on which will be closed to trafhis or her stomach, or face fic either at food stands or down. Normal babies rouse a food court. at and turn their heads. Kinney In Salt Lake, the city's says many SIDS babies can't Olympic Planning Office "respond to the challenge." will make sure visitors have She suspects the problem access to food. Director John may arise during fetal Sittner said alternatives to development. restaurants will be available The defect has no sympto tourists, but the office still toms. Kinney hopes sophistiis working on its plans. cated tests that detect it will Olympic planners also become eventually part of have promised that plenty routine autopsies. Her ultiof places will be open to the mate goal, which will take public. Plus, games organizyears, is to devise a blood ers will have concession test that detects the abnor- stands at all the venues mality before it kills, and to offering everything from hot learn whether factors such meals to hot chocolate. as nutritional deficiency durThere will be some ing pregnancy are a cause. restaurants which will be Kinney decided to speopen to the average spectacialize in SIDS research tor. Among them, the nine after dealing with the par- restaurants owned by Gasents of dead babies during tronomy Inc. have decided her medical training. to stay open for the locals, "It was very difficult to said spokeswoman Judy say I don't know what's Reese. involved. I don't have any Olympic officials had answers," she said. originally wanted to set up patients, "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Maybe... Maybe Not!" Orem, UT. with one of EATERIES stress, similar to the "Back to Sleep" push, may help reduce SIDS deaths. And in recommendations published last year, the American Academy of Pedi- atrics listed overheating and excessive use of blankets or bed clothes among factors that increase the risk of SIDS. Autopsies are recommended after all SIDS deaths, but typically they reveal the same sparse information as Dominic Miller's. The baby had pinhead hemorrhages in his lungs, but nothing else. The tiny bleeding spots, called petechiae, are found in many SIDS babies and in other ailments as well. With SIDS babies, Krous suspects the hemorrhaging is caused by vigorous but futile efforts to resume breathing after a period of sleep apnea, when breathing stops for a few seconds. Most babies rouse themselves easily from such er SOUTH COUNTY'S ONLY SECURE n - 24 hr. recorded message. e ALZHEIMER UNIT Homestyle Assisted Living Take a Shawn Stinson, Park City Visitors Bureau Of Our Facility At "sponsor villages" in Salt Lake and Park City, where the sponsors could operate hospitality suites. Similar' c villages were part of the and Atlanta',; Sydney Olympics, said Mark Lewis, president of Olympic Prop- erties of the United States, the U.S. Olympic Commit-,- , tee's joint marketing venture with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. But the villages didn't catch on, partly because of the expense of building an entire community for 17 days. Instead, sponsors went ,, looking for alternatives. Xerox Corp, for example, is saving $250,000 by rent-;;- ; e ing out Park City's Cafe for every after- noon of the games, said " Terry Dillman, the compa-1- " ny's Olympic marketing manager. 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