Chronic sleeping problems could trigger manic depression in children, a new study suggests. Researchers found that a gene which disrupts the body’s natural internal clock was strongly linked to the condition, also known as bipolar disorder. They have called for more research into the gene, called RORB, to try to find better treatments for the illness.
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Sleep problems ‘could trigger manic depression in children’
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Another 2p on co-sleeping/cot-death
Friday, October 16th, 2009Well, that’s interesting: there’s more to that story about co-sleeping with a baby. While the new report says, “The safest place for an infant to sleep is in a cot beside the parents’ bed.”, a message that the Department of Health and the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) reiterate, the latter two did not tell us that the report also states: “Based on evidence from research into Sids it is questionable whether advice to avoid bedsharing is generalisable and whether such a simplistic approach would do no harm. Parents of young infants need to feed them during the night, sometimes several times, and if we demonise the parents’ bed we may be in danger of the sofa being chosen. A better approach may be to warn parents of the specific circumstances that put infants at risk.”
Now the sofa is a real risk factor, the bed is no more risky than the cot. But FSID thought that message is ‘too complicated’ for the public. Well, at least I got the qualification I wanted in my rant: sofas, drinking, drugs and smoking are bad, bedsharing on its own isn’t.
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