Did you know fungus can interact with mattress chemicals to create poisonous gases that can cause crib death?

Keep reading to learn how this happens and be sure to pay special attention to the mention of fungus interacting with mattress chemicals to create poisonous gases.

This isn’t something you will hear from your pediatrician. Do your own research please and share this post with others. It could literally save a child’s life.

“…crib death is caused by toxic gases, which can be generated from a baby’s mattress…chemical compounds containing phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony have been added to mattresses as fire retardants and for other purposes since the early 1950s.

A fungus that commonly grows in bedding can interact with these chemicals to create poisonous gases (Richardson 1994).

These heavier-than-air gases are concentrated in a thin layer on the baby’s mattress or are diffused away and dissipated into the surrounding atmosphere.

If a baby breathes or absorbs a lethal dose of the gases, the central nervous system shuts down, stopping breathing and then heart function.

These gases can fatally poison a baby, without waking the sleeping baby and without any struggle by the baby. A normal autopsy would not reveal any sign that the baby was poisoned (Sprott 1996).” Source: New Zealand scientist and chemist, Dr. James Sprott

This is why it’s so important to buy mattresses without flame retardants and without chemicals. It is also important to routinely check your mattresses for moisture marks and mold growth.

In regards to chemicals and mold in mattresses, babies are especially susceptible because of their tiny, developing bodies.

Did you know about this or has your pediatrician warned you about this?
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