nNewborn Baby Health Alert

Newborn Baby Vulnerability to Toxic Gases in Mattresses

Early developmental stages of the newborn baby's organs, nervous system, and immune system, greater rates of cell division, and the newborn baby's lower body weight increases susceptibility to chemical exposure. A newborn baby's immature organs and other developing biological systems are particularly vulnerable to toxic contaminants.

A 1993 report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that a newborn baby is more susceptible than adults to the health effects from low-level exposures to chemicals. Animal studies also suggest that the newborn baby is more susceptible to the effects of toxic chemicals. A review of 269 drugs and toxic substances found that the lethal dose was lower in newborn rodents than in adult rodents in 86% of the cases.

Tragically, crib mattresses as well as adult mattresses carry a risk to your newborn baby from fire retardants added to the mattresses during manufacturing. Fire retardants are supposed to protect your newborn baby in case of a fire, but they can also be very lethal. There is strong evidence that the fire retardants added to the mattresses 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 newborn baby bedding can interact with these chemicals to create poisonous gases. These dangerous gases can poison a newborn 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. Babies from birth up to the age of about one year are at risk, but this tragedy is most likely to occur between the ages of one month and six months.

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 newborn 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 crib death and why parents have not been warned about what has been termed the worst environmental disaster of the century.