I had a sister who died from SIDS >50 years ago. She wasn’t even old enough to start getting vaccines, so I can’t point to vaccines as a probable cause. Things just happen. Sadly, this also happened to a family at church recently.
I have a question about SUDS. I know that young people with Type 1 diabetes can be found dead in bed, presumably from a low blood sugar in the night. Does anyone know if low blood sugar can be shown at autopsy? What if a child is undiagnosed and perhaps has the first low blood sugar incident at night - could the ME tell it was from diabetes?
That is a good question. One of my goals is to see that more comprehensive autopsies are done on these cases so that we can better understand and hopefully someday prevent more deaths. The testing done was minimal (tox screen to test for all drugs used and abused by adults and a carbon monoxide test.) This is one of the reasons we are hiring an independent Neuro-pathologist for additional review and testing. The babies brain tissue is being shipped from the Arizona Medical Examiner to the Doctor I found that I feel is a good resource.
The theory that makes the most sense to me is that some children are more vulnerable because their brain is different, they are more susceptible to seizures and SUDC because of some outside trigger they quit breathing and die in their sleep. Their is more to it but the vaccination can be determined to be that TRIGGER.