Baby Cribs And Safe Bedding

Baby Cribs - Mattresses Contain Fire Retardants

Baby cribs can come in many designs, shapes, sizes and colors, but the one thing they all have in common is a mattress. Tragically, baby crib mattresses carry a risk to your baby from fire retardants added to the mattresses during manufacturing. Fire retardants are supposed to protect your baby in case of a fire, but they can also be very lethal.

Baby Cribs - Fire Retardants And Lethal Gases

There is strong evidence that the fire retardants added to the mattresses used in baby cribs 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. 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. The risk of death increases when baby crib mattresses are reused.

Over one million babies have already died over the past fifty years from crib death (SIDS). SIDS researchers maintain that after four decades of expensive research, they still do not know what causes SIDS. But a 100% effective SIDS prevention campaign has been quietly carried out in New Zealand for the past eight years. This and other scientific research shows that taking a simple step to wrap a baby's mattress with an inexpensive cover can easily prevent SIDS. Click here to find out more about this amazing story of the toxic gas explanation for baby crib death and why parents have not been warned about what has been termed the worst environmental disaster of the century.