Using a fan during sleep lowers SIDS risk by 72 percent
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
Infants who slept in a bedroom with a fan ventilating the air had a 72 percent lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome compared to infants who slept in a bedroom without a fan, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study appears in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.