Every day
around 8 babies die from
crib death in the United
States.
However,
research now shows that simple precautions can prevent
crib death.
Two scientists,
Dr Jim Sprott in New Zealand and Mr Barry Richardson in
the United Kingdom, have proven that
crib death is
caused by gases generated by fungal activity on
compounds of phosphorus, arsenic and/or antimony present
in many baby mattresses and other items of baby
bedding.
SOLUTION
The solution is
to wrap your baby’s crib mattress with a strictly
specified mattress cover which prevents the gases from
reaching the baby; and to use on top the wrapped
mattress specified bedding which is not capable of the
gas generation concerned.
“Mattress-wrapping for
crib death prevention” has been publicised nationwide in New Zealand for the past 10
years. During that time a very large number of New
Zealand babies have slept on mattresses wrapped in
specially formulated slip-on polyethylene co-polymer
mattress covers. These mattress covers (which were
designed by Dr Sprott and are called
BabeSafe
covers) are now in use in a number of countries.
There has been
no reported
crib death – anywhere in the world – on any
mattress wrapped in accordance with Dr Sprott’s
mattress-wrapping specifications.
Reference the
Frequently
Asked Questions section within
this website for more details.
