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COT DEATHS LINKED TO VACCINATIONS DEATHS used to monitor babies' breathing in their homes are not breath- ing monitors - they are "motion monitors" where any move- ment is taken as breathing. After one particular meeting, where our demonstration of marked differences between the level of alarms in near miss and new born babies fell on the deaf ears of cot death 'researchers', we looked at each other and said with one breath: "Let's do a damn good job of this research our- selves". Leif spent one and a half years developing a microprocessor based Cotwatch. With this equipment you don't have to rely on records of alarms; you get computer printouts of the longitudi- nal record of a baby's breathing. You can't have more objective information than that. Although vaccination is undoubtedly the single biggest and most preventable cause of cot death, it is not the only one. If we write too much about vaccination, we would inevitably create an impression that we think that vaccines are the only cause of cot death. The key words in cot death are Non-Specific Stress Syndrome. This is the underlying mechanism of all cot deaths and it explains all pathological and clinical observations. Our records confirmed the existence of a Stress-Induced Breathing Pattern, which is a low-volume breathing (5-10% of the volume of normal unstressed breathing), occurring in clus- ters (3-6 shorter episodes within 10-15 minutes) when a child is incubating illness or teething or following "insults", such as exposure to cigarette smoke, fatigue, overhandling by visitors, or vaccination needles. Numerous causes, but the same reac- tion. Many years ago, a Canadian medical doctor, Dr Hans Selye, became particularly interested in the well-known fact that for a number of days before patients develop symptoms of specific illness, which can be diagnosed, they always show signs of a non-specific nature which are common to many or possibly all diseases. When he injected extracts of tissues, or a great variety of noxious substances into rats, he observed the following signs of organ damage: spot-like bleeding into lungs and thymus, shrunken thymus and all lymphatic structures, enlarged adren- al cortex, ulceration of the gastro-intestinal tract, derangements in body temperature control, increased or decreased viscosity of the blood, disappearance of eosinophils (white blood cells) from blood, etc. He concluded that he was looking at a universal reaction of organisms to any noxious substance. He also connected the results of his experiments with his earlier observations of patients with the non-specific symptoms of the initial stages of any illness. Selye also concluded that the Non-Specific Stress (or General Adaptation) Syndrome has three stages: the alarm stage when the body is under acute attack and mobilises all its defences; the stage of adaptation or resistance, when it seems to relax and seemingly accepts the intruding noxious sub- Cot Death is the single biggest cause of death in infants from about four weeks to six months of age, with another peak at about 9 months in industrially developed countries. It gets a lot of media exposure and people are successfully asked to dip into their pockets and contribute to cot death research. This has been going on for some twenty years now and yet cot death remains a 'mystery which may never be resolved’. Perhaps the time has come for the doctors and the public to start asking some relevant questions, such why, with so much money poured into research, cot death is still officially presented as that famous 'mystery' and more and more money is 'needed' to resolve it in 'years to come’. Some 4.5 years ago, my husband Leif Karlsson, a biomedical engineer specialising in patient monitoring systems), and myself, a retired Principal Research Scientist) were looking for a paediatrician willing to undertake proper research with our Cotwatch Breathing Monitor. The emphasis with this equip- ment is on 'breathing' because most, if not all of the machines NEXUS - 9 By Dr Viera Scheibner (PhD) & Leif Karlsson the single biggest and most preventable cause of cot death, much about vaccination, we would we think that vaccines are the only STRESS INDUCED BREATHING PATTERNS DISCOVERED BY COTWATCH Syndrome. This is the underlying mechanism of all cot deaths and it explains all pathological and clinical observations. COTWATCH: THE FIRST TRUE INFANT BREATHING MONITOR OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1991 * YEAR BOOK