Use of a pacifier appears to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, report a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Kaiser Permanente in an article in the British Medical Journal.
The article will be published on-line.
In the study, the researchers compared infants who died of SIDS to a group of healthy infants with similar characteristics. The authors found that infants who used a pacifier (referred to as a " dummy " in the BMJ article) during sleep had a 90 percent reduction in SIDS risk when compared to infants who did not use a pacifier. The study provides support for the recent American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation to consider offering a pacifier at nap time and bedtime to reduce ">SIDS risk.
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