Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS): Beware
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome? Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is a term used for torture case of baby. In the case of SBS, usually the baby is shaken strongly by adults who are angry and usually intended to stop the baby’s crying or whining.
Shaken Baby Syndrome happens to ordinary children under 1 year and can cause severe brain injury permanently, injure spinal cord, bleeding in the eye, and even death. How popular is Shaken Baby Syndrome? But for the illustration, in America there are about 1000 to 1500 cases each year. Most of SBS victims are babies aged 3 to 8 months. There are also fewer cases found in the toddlers who aged up to 4 years. And 25% of children who had Shaken Baby Syndrome in the United States having a death.
What does cause Shaken Baby Syndrome? Babies have a neck muscles which are very weak. But he has a hevy head and large when compared with their body size. Baby’s brain is very vulnerable and need room to grow. That’s whay there are spaces or gaps between tha skull and brain that support such growth. If you are shaking your baby strongly, this can cause your baby’s brain move in their sockets. Furtherore the baby’s brain will swell and the blood vessels can be torn. Typically, babies who experienced Shaken Bbay Syndrome will had brain hemmorhage, bleeding in the eye and the injury to the spinal cord or neck. Some babies also showed bruises and cracked ribs.
