Cot Death (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

Cot Death:

may have a number of causes or contributing factors.

One very likely cause sits between clumsy infant handling and outright abuse:

Some parents regularly handle their infants in a rough manner. It inflicts shock to which the infant immune system will be triggered into a state where it is constantly in a state of overreaction.The immune system becomes permanently stressed and will naturally become prone to numerous compounding health problems. The extreme though is deliberate abuse.
Since the 1950's I have repeatedly witnessed while in normally private situations where mothers or siblings will hit sleeping infants. The act is always carried out when the culprits believe they are unobserved. In the most extreme cases, mothers will pick up their sleeping infants by the throat and punch them. To do this surely puts the child's life at risk.
This behaviour needs to be bought to the attention of the medical profession to help solve the mysteries surrounding S.I.D.S. By investigating this syndrome of abuse, surely a major part of S.I.D.S. will no longer be a mystery.