Baby Bedding Safety Alert!

Baby Bedding And Fire Retardants

Baby bedding is an important part of your baby's environment. Precautions must be taken to ensure that this environment is free from toxic chemicals that cause adverse health effects, since developing babies are much more susceptible to the effects of chemicals than adults. Manufacturers add fire retardants to baby bedding, particularly to mattresses. Fire retardants are supposed to protect your baby in case of a fire, but they can also be very lethal.

Baby Bedding - Toxic Nerve Gases In Mattresses

There is strong evidence that the fire retardants added to baby bedding can cause crib death (SIDS). Dr. Jim Sprott, OBE, a New Zealand scientist and chemist, states with certainty that crib death is caused by toxic nerve gases, which can be generated from a baby's mattress and other baby bedding. Chemical compounds containing phosphorus, arsenic and antimony have been added to mattresses as fire retardants and for other purposes since the early 1950's. An otherwise harmless household fungus that commonly grows in baby bedding can interact with these chemicals to create poisonous gases. These dangerous gases can poison a baby to death, without waking the sleeping baby and without any struggle by the baby. A normal autopsy would not reveal any sign that the baby was poisoned.

Over one million babies have died over the past 50 years from crib death. Click here to read the amazing story of this toxic gas explanation for crib death and why parents have not been warned about what has been termed the worst environmental disaster of the century.