It would seem that danger from illness due to the airflow would outweigh the reduced risk.
How many of you sleep with a fan blowing air over you?
I sleep with a fan running all the time, summer, fall, winter, spring. I’m healthy as a horse.
They say in the article that the theory is that the baby is breathing in a pocket of stale air trapped in covers or around the baby, and that the fan going moves the air around.
In the summer, we have a fan on all night. If we’re chilly, we use a sheet (and a blanket over the baby, if we have one in the room).
A baby is exposed to the germs in your house due to contact with infected people; germs on surfaces or in the air generally don’t live long. Air circulation, unless someone in the room is coughing and sneezing a great deal, doesn’t seem a particular risk.
The research I’ve read suggests that many SIDS cases are a form of suffocation - either an obvious form, like the baby’s mouth being under a pillow or toy, or carbon-dioxide suffocation because it’s flat on its face and doesn’t move. Keeping the air moving around the baby could make a difference.
Honestly, I do all summer long.
I also believe that airflow is much more healthy than stagnant air.
I sleep with the ceiling fan on every night.
I cannot sleep in a draft from window or fan without getting an earache or sniffles.
me, all year thru even the winter......
Me...year round.