the following story is breaking news, as of May 11, 2022.
it is also very fake news.
please read with discernment.
Funding
All funding provided by a crowd funding campaign
https://www.mycause.com.au/p/184401/damiens-legacy
About
Twenty-eight years ago, I was a lawyer, who used to be a research biochemist and a mother of 3 gorgeous children, when one night my beautiful healthy baby son, Damien, died suddenly and without warning. I was told it was tragic and I was told to go home and enjoy my living babies and have more. I tried.
I tried so hard that one day 3 years later, when I was visiting my friend, I said nothing when I saw her baby, Amelia, sleeping on her tummy in the pram. I did not respond to the screaming voice in my head to tell her to never sleep her baby on her tummy. I was trying to get on with my life, I did not want to upset her and so I said nothing. The next morning, sitting in my office, overlooking the harbour, I got a phone call. Amelia had died in her sleep during the night.
That afternoon I resigned my job as a lawyer and returned to the world of medical research. I made a solemn resolution there and then to leave no stone unturned in my quest to solve the mystery of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Twenty-eight years on from Damien’s death there have been major advancements in our understanding of SIDS and the number of babies dying from this has greatly decreased. However, the sad fact remains that in Australia nearly 3 babies die suddenly and unexpectedly every single week.
Our team at Children's Hospital Westmead and Sydney University desperately wants to find a solution to this horror and we think we are getting close, but we have run out of funds. As everyone probably knows, funding in the research world is always scarce and, in the past, we have got by on an absolute minimum. But we are now at a cross-roads. We can go no further in our investigations as we now need to use highly specialised equipment to progress our research.
There is no guarantee that we have the definitive answer. Our research to date indicates that we are close and we are definitely excited about the possibilities our new results suggest – and hence my appeal to you. In my 25 years researching SIDS I have not asked for public money. I have happily donated my time and found other ways of bringing in an income – like writing books and working in the world of adult sleep. In fact, apart from my close friends and colleagues, few have known about what I always considered to be my real work – that of finding an answer to why Damien, and so many other babies, are taken from us suddenly and without any warning in the middle of the night when, really, they are meant to be in the safest place possible.
I cannot say with certainty that our new discovery will keep every precious baby safe, but even if it doesn't it will definitely add to our knowledge of this tragic problem and bring us closer to a time when all parents can be assured that when they put their beautiful baby to sleep they are safe. They will not have to suffer the horror, that so many mums and dads have had to suffer, of finding their baby dead in their cot.
Let us all come together to end the heartache of SIDS. If every parent in Australia donated just one dollar it would be of such an enormous help in our quest. All donations are tax deductible and all funds raised go directly to research.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I wish you all the very best and wish you the joy of watching your children grow into beautiful and healthy adults.
Carmel Harrington
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396422002225
Summary
Background
Autonomic dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is an enzyme of the cholinergic system, a major branch of the autonomic system, and may provide a measure of autonomic (dys)function. This study was undertaken to evaluate BChE activity in infants and young children who had died from Sudden Infant Death or Sudden Unexpected Death.
Methods
In this case-control study we measured BChE activity and total protein in the eluate of 5μL spots punched from the dried blood spots taken at birth as part of the newborn screening program. Results for each of 67 sudden unexpected deaths classified by the coroner (aged 1 week-104 weeks) = Cases, were compared to 10 date of birth - and gender-matched surviving controls (Controls), with five cases reclassified to meet criteria for SIDS, including the criterion of age 3 weeks to 1 year.
Findings
Conditional logistic regression showed that in groups where cases were reported as “SIDS death” there was strong evidence that lower BChE specific activity (BChEsa) was associated with death (OR=0·73 per U/mg, 95% CI 0·60-0·89, P=0·0014), whereas in groups with a “Non-SIDS death” as the case there was no evidence of a linear association between BChEsa and death (OR=1·001 per U/mg, 95% CI 0·89-1·13, P=0·99).
Interpretation
BChEsa, measured in dried blood spots taken 2-3 days after birth, was lower in babies who subsequently died of SIDS compared to surviving controls and other Non-SIDS deaths. We conclude that a previously unidentified cholinergic deficit, identifiable by abnormal -BChEsa, is present at birth in SIDS babies and represents a measurable, specific vulnerability prior to their death.
isn't the timing of this "research" just oh-so convenient?
decades go by, and not a single doctor or scientist could figure out what caused SIDS,
and by all appearances, no doctor or scientist had any interest whatsoever in finding out what causes SIDS.
and then here comes a researcher, with a heart-wrenching story, of having a child die of SIDS, which would conveniently explain her rare interest in SIDS, in a time when nobody else is.
so 28 years ago she loses a child to SIDS, and 3 years later, her friend has a kid die of SIDS, supposedly from belly sleeping. (nice narrative development)
and for the next 20+ years, she gets paid to fruitlessly wrack her brain, trying to figure out what causes SIDS,
and then less than 4 years ago, in Aug of 2018, she randomly decided to ask for $100,000 in donations, even though she hadn't produced anything noteworthy in the last 20 years....
She needs the money to do some tests, on some pre-existing samples of blood?
Curiously, even though her research is already done and published, she is still accepting donations for her "work".
She's currently "only" at 66K, so obviously she asked for far more money that she truly needed to do her "research", unless we are to believe she went deep into debt to finance her own scientific research, and needs help paying it off.
lets look at the study itself.
i know good and well, that the pro-vaxxers would call this a "correlation", and omg the sample size...
https://www.biospace.com/article/researchers-answer-how-and-why-infants-die-from-sids/
reddit is going crazy with this post.
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/unqjio/researchers_pinpoint_reason_infants_die_from_sids/
even spamming old threads about vaccines causing SIDS
google news search for SIDS, shows this BS study is being picked up on local news stations around the world.
I have days where a little baby will come in with a parent (usually our refugee or immigrant population) and they pump these little babies full of 8 different vaccines because they are "behind schedule". I'm still to this day seeing children getting their covid vaccine within days or weeks of turning 5 because they come in for their well child checks and the doc pushes it on them.
When I say pushes I truly mean that. Doctor's are even notating in charts their persistence in getting people to take vaccines.
In general I think the Hep B at birth is relatively fine because of the ways Hep A/B can be transmitted (we can get into the argument of viruses and how we might be able to cure hepatitis and friends with ivermectin later) and to a certain extent HiB because we don't have a lot of case studies on people taking HCQ and/or Ivermectin to cure these.
Edit: The schedules for anyone interested https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
As a real life data point, today when I was picking up some prescriptions, the pharm tech said that they are starting to recommend HepB Vaccines, and that if I wanted one or had any questions, they would be there.
It just seemed a bit out of the blue, but now I'm wondering if it was as random as it seems.
40 y.o. female.
It's not unheard of but definitely not in their typical rolodex of vaccines. Usually what they advertise is flu, pneuomcoccal, shingles, and now covid (barf). But a pharmacists can administer any vaccine that a doctors can. This also includes things like B12 and some places will offer Depo shots.
/r/BiggerThanJesus