After a few cradles were banned in the US last year for numerous crib deaths, the alarm now extends to four other companies.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousBaby cots held responsible for the risk of suffocation, including lethal ones. After cradles were banned in the United States last year for causing numerous cot deaths, the alarm now extends to four other companies as well.
According to reports from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, this is a total of about 165 thousand inclined sleepers.
Specifically, the recall - which for now involves the US market - involves approximately 111 thousand Graco Little Lounger models; 3.100 Pillo, made by Evenflo; 46.300 SwaddleMe By Your Bed Sleepers, made by Sumr Brands; and approximately 5.900 Delta sloped sleepers. In particular, these are the products banned in the US market:
- Graco Little Lounger Rocking Seats
- Evenflo Portable Pillow Napper Inclined Sleepers
- Summer Infant SwaddleMe By Your Bed
- Delta Incline Sleeper with Adjustable Feeding Position for Newborns
Today's recall, however, comes after an investigation by the Consumer Report had discovered dozens of infant deaths linked to what had been defined as "killer cots" in April 2019. That investigation led to the recall of 4,7 million Fisher-Price Sleeper Rock-n Play, in addition to the recall of more than 670 Kids II inclined sleepers, 71 inclined sleep accessories sold Day & Night Ultra-Lite Fisher-Price and 24 Disney and Eddie Bauer rocking inclined sleepers produced by Dorel. Overall, inclined cribs and infant reducers have been linked to at least 73 fatalities and more than 1.000 reported incidents, including serious injuries.
To deepen the previous references:
- Killer cots and infant sleep reducers, three new models under investigation
- Killer cradles for babies: three new Chicco and Disney products withdrawn
- Killer cradles for babies, new mass withdrawal: don't use them!
Several major retailers, including Amazon, Buy Buy Baby, eBay, and Walmart, pulled all recliners from their stores and websites as early as December 2019.
Why withdraw them? Because some surveys show that inclined baby sleep products - which are designed to put babies to bed at an incline between 10 and 30 degrees - are not a safe sleeping environment for babies because they can increase the risk of compression. of the airways, suffocation and death.
On the other hand, these are products contrary to the American Academy of Pediatrics' safe sleep recommendations that babies should be placed in bed on their backs, alone, unrestricted, and on a flat, solid surface that is free of bumpers and other soft beds.
Therefore, in general, it is advisable to avoid narrow streets or cradles which, due to the inclination, compress the child's chin too much to the body. The reason is obvious: you too try to bring your chin attached to the neck (position that is assumed by newborns in this type of sleeping support) and now try to breathe, hasn't the effort to do so increased considerably?
Read also:
- Baby sleep reducers banned in Great Britain
