The cot afterlife charity, The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), today launched the UK’s aboriginal amusing networking website for boyish parents.
Latest abstracts appearance that mums beneath 20 are over four times added acceptable to accept a baby die as a cot afterlife than earlier mothers*.
The new site, bubbalicious http://www.bubbalicious.co.uk, offers abutment and safe beddy-bye tips for both mums and adolescent dads.
Users can chat, win prizes, upload 50 photos and crop allotment in a four-level baby-care challenge. If successful, they are awarded the appellation of Top Dad or Big Sister which allows them to accord admonition to added parents on the site.
FSID’s director, Joyce Epstein, said: “Sadly, the latest analysis shows that boyish mums accept the accomplished amount of cot death, but we anticipate that abounding are missing out on safe beddy-bye advice.
“We developed bubbalicious afterwards consulting with adolescent parents above the country, and we absolutely achievement that the abutment accessible on the website will advice advance the activity affairs of the UK’s a lot of accessible babies.” http://www.bubbalicious.co.uk was advised and developed by London-based agenda business agency, Neoco http://www.neoco.com
Notes to Editors
For added advice about FSID or to align an account with adolescent parents amuse acquaintance columnist and campaigns administrator Louisa Mullan on 020 7802 3223 louisa.mullan @ fsid.org.uk or communications administrator Sara Green on 020 7802 3225 sara.green @ fsid.org.uk
*Latest abstracts from the Office of National Statistics appear on 26 August 2009: amount of deaths per 1000 abide births for mothers beneath 20 years of age in England and Wales: 1.12. For mothers over 24 years: 0.25.
About Neoco
Neoco is a arch London-based agenda business agency. The agency recognises that all brands charge to plan above assorted media platforms to be successful. Their artistic solutions ambit from 'traditional' agenda campaigns; websites, banners, viral, email and mobile; to 'emerging' agenda media; chat of mouth, widgets and amusing networking.
Neoco’s audience cover Topman, Quark, Samsung and Warner Music Group,
About FSID
The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths is the UK’s arch baby alms alive to anticipate abrupt deaths and advance baby health. FSID funds analysis (nearly £10 actor to date), supports beggared families, promotes baby affliction advice, and works to advance investigations if a baby dies.
FSID has a chargeless buzz helpline for parents and professionals gluttonous admonition on safe baby affliction 0808 802 6868
The helpline aswell supports beggared families. Advice for parents and professionals can aswell be begin at http://www.fsid.org.uk
Advice for parents to abate the accident of cot death:
- Cut smoker in abundance – fathers too! And don’t let anyone smoke in the aforementioned allowance as your baby.
- Place your baby on the aback to beddy-bye (and not on the foreground or side).
- Do not let your baby get too hot, and accumulate your baby’s arch uncovered.
- Place your baby with their anxiety to the bottom of the cot, to anticipate them wriggling down beneath the covers or use a baby beddy-bye bag
- Never beddy-bye with your baby on a daybed or armchair.
- The safest abode for your baby to beddy-bye is in a bassinet or cot in a allowance with you for the aboriginal six months. - It’s abnormally alarming for your baby to beddy-bye in your bed if you (or your partner):
- are a smoker, even if you never smoke in bed or at home
- accept been bubbler alcohol
- crop medication or drugs that accomplish you drowsy
- feel actual tired; or if your baby:
- was complete afore 37 weeks
- advised beneath than 2.5kg or 5½ lbs at birth
- Don’t forget, accidents can happen: you ability cycle over in your beddy-bye and asphyxiate your baby; or your baby could get bent amid the bank and the bed, or could cycle out of an developed bed and be injured.
- Settling your baby to beddy-bye (day and night) with a copy can abate the accident of cot death, even if the copy avalanche out while your baby is asleep.
- Breastfeed your baby. Establish breastfeeding afore starting to use a dummy.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
76 Percent of Australians May Suffer from Stress or Insomnia
This amazing accomplishment emerged from the after-effects of the Blackmores Sleep Survey, which aswell begin that 51 per cent of those who ache indisposition accusation accent for their lack of sleep.
“We are now a 24-hour society. It makes faculty that the analysis showed the a lot of accepted acumen for insomnia was accent and the disability to about-face off an overactive mind.” said Pam Stone, Blackmores Director of Education.
“Sleep is analytical for the able action of every aspect of the body. Attention span, metabolism, eyes and beef fatigue may all be afflicted by the aggregate and above of beddy-bye you get,” she added.
For the best adventitious at a acceptable night’s rest, Stone recommends Blackmores’ Seven Steps to Switching Off:
1.Avoid caffeine and booze afterwards 3pm – Caffeine speeds up your metabolism and affection rate. Its accoutrement can endure from 8-14 hours. A bottle of wine may advice forward you to beddy-bye but it added acceptable leads to an active beddy-bye which does not furnish your anatomy effectively.
2.Sleep in a quiet, cool, aphotic allowance – Studies accept begin that the optimal allowance temperature for beddy-bye is about 15-20 degrees celsius. This reduces amount anatomy temperature and induces sleep.
3.Consider a adequate herbal supplement - “Herbs like passionflower, hops and auto analgesic relax an overactive apperception and abutment accustomed beddy-bye patterns,” said Stone. Blackmores Executive B Sleep Formula™ contains these ingredients.
4.Put your apperception to blow - Keep a block accessible to address down any aggravation thoughts. Maybe alarm your own voicemail and leave a message. When the anticipation is out of your arch it will put your apperception to blow and your anatomy will follow.
5.Get concrete - Regular exercise will advice to affluence your astriction by absolution endorphins (the “feel good” hormones) into your system. Regular exercise aswell promotes bigger beddy-bye above by acceptance smoother, added approved transitions amid the phases of sleep. However, don’t exercise too backward as the anatomy still needs time to wind down. Give yourself about two hours amid your exercise affair and the time you plan to go to bed.
6.Get the appropriate aggregate of beddy-bye for you - While there are recommended amounts of beddy-bye we should get anniversary night, no one can acquaint how abundant you charge bigger than yourself. Some humans charge as abundant as eight or nine hours and others acquisition they action best on abundant less.
7.Maintain a approved sleeping agenda – Going to bed and alive up at the aforementioned time anniversary day can advice ensure acceptable beddy-bye patterns.
For added advice about managing stress and indisposition or to allege to a able naturopath alarm Blackmores’ chargeless Advisory Service on 1800 803 760 or appointment Blackmores.com.au.
Blackmores Executive B Sleep Formula™ is accessible at all supermarkets, pharmacies and bloom aliment food for RRP $19.95 (14 tablets, two anniversary supply) $32.95 (28 tablets one ages supply).
For added advice or to account Pam Stone, Blackmores Director of Education:
Amy Down - Public Relations Manager – Blackmores
P. 02 9910 5107
M. 0418 649 412
E. adown@blackmores.com.au
Note to Editors - Further statistics begin from the Blackmores-commissioned analysis :
?78% of respondents are actual or somewhat anxious about their accent condition
?65% are actual or somewhat anxious about their indisposition condition
?46% of humans who are fatigued adduce money/finances to be the cause
?44% of Australians surveyed accept suffered from indisposition in the endure 6 months.
?About 41% of humans who are fatigued adduce ancestors and relationships as the could cause of their insomnia
?About 4.8 actor Australians ache from both accent and insomnia
Always apprehend the label. Use alone as directed. If affection persist, see a healthcare professional. Vitamin supplements should not alter a counterbalanced diet.
“We are now a 24-hour society. It makes faculty that the analysis showed the a lot of accepted acumen for insomnia was accent and the disability to about-face off an overactive mind.” said Pam Stone, Blackmores Director of Education.
“Sleep is analytical for the able action of every aspect of the body. Attention span, metabolism, eyes and beef fatigue may all be afflicted by the aggregate and above of beddy-bye you get,” she added.
For the best adventitious at a acceptable night’s rest, Stone recommends Blackmores’ Seven Steps to Switching Off:
1.Avoid caffeine and booze afterwards 3pm – Caffeine speeds up your metabolism and affection rate. Its accoutrement can endure from 8-14 hours. A bottle of wine may advice forward you to beddy-bye but it added acceptable leads to an active beddy-bye which does not furnish your anatomy effectively.
2.Sleep in a quiet, cool, aphotic allowance – Studies accept begin that the optimal allowance temperature for beddy-bye is about 15-20 degrees celsius. This reduces amount anatomy temperature and induces sleep.
3.Consider a adequate herbal supplement - “Herbs like passionflower, hops and auto analgesic relax an overactive apperception and abutment accustomed beddy-bye patterns,” said Stone. Blackmores Executive B Sleep Formula™ contains these ingredients.
4.Put your apperception to blow - Keep a block accessible to address down any aggravation thoughts. Maybe alarm your own voicemail and leave a message. When the anticipation is out of your arch it will put your apperception to blow and your anatomy will follow.
5.Get concrete - Regular exercise will advice to affluence your astriction by absolution endorphins (the “feel good” hormones) into your system. Regular exercise aswell promotes bigger beddy-bye above by acceptance smoother, added approved transitions amid the phases of sleep. However, don’t exercise too backward as the anatomy still needs time to wind down. Give yourself about two hours amid your exercise affair and the time you plan to go to bed.
6.Get the appropriate aggregate of beddy-bye for you - While there are recommended amounts of beddy-bye we should get anniversary night, no one can acquaint how abundant you charge bigger than yourself. Some humans charge as abundant as eight or nine hours and others acquisition they action best on abundant less.
7.Maintain a approved sleeping agenda – Going to bed and alive up at the aforementioned time anniversary day can advice ensure acceptable beddy-bye patterns.
For added advice about managing stress and indisposition or to allege to a able naturopath alarm Blackmores’ chargeless Advisory Service on 1800 803 760 or appointment Blackmores.com.au.
Blackmores Executive B Sleep Formula™ is accessible at all supermarkets, pharmacies and bloom aliment food for RRP $19.95 (14 tablets, two anniversary supply) $32.95 (28 tablets one ages supply).
For added advice or to account Pam Stone, Blackmores Director of Education:
Amy Down - Public Relations Manager – Blackmores
P. 02 9910 5107
M. 0418 649 412
E. adown@blackmores.com.au
Note to Editors - Further statistics begin from the Blackmores-commissioned analysis :
?78% of respondents are actual or somewhat anxious about their accent condition
?65% are actual or somewhat anxious about their indisposition condition
?46% of humans who are fatigued adduce money/finances to be the cause
?44% of Australians surveyed accept suffered from indisposition in the endure 6 months.
?About 41% of humans who are fatigued adduce ancestors and relationships as the could cause of their insomnia
?About 4.8 actor Australians ache from both accent and insomnia
Always apprehend the label. Use alone as directed. If affection persist, see a healthcare professional. Vitamin supplements should not alter a counterbalanced diet.
Restless Leg Syndrome Linked to Magnesium Deficiency
Restless leg affection (RLS) is a anatomy of indisposition characterized by an cutting appetite to move the legs if they are at rest, abnormally during sleep. RLS affects about 10% of the humans in the U.S. It runs in families and may accept a abiogenetic component. Recent analysis has begin that humans with active leg affection are amiss in the mineral magnesium.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, about six out of ten Americans address accepting indisposition and beddy-bye problems at atomic a few nights a week. Other types of indisposition cover beddy-bye apnea, which involves disconnected breath and comatose during the night; narcolepsy - which causes humans to abatement cold throughout the daytime; indisposition from hormone fluctuations such as with menstruation or menopause; and indisposition from the use of medications, caffeine or alcohol.
Those who accept active leg affection acquaintance abhorrent sensations in the legs declared as creeping, crawling, tingling, pulling, or painful. These sensations usually action in the dogie across but may be acquainted anywhere from the thigh to the ankle. People with RLS generally acquaintance abiding indisposition and indisposition due to the able appetite to airing or do added activities to abate the sensations in their legs.
In one abstraction from the Romanian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, advisers conducted biochemical and acoustic tests in 10 cases of active leg syndrome. The board appear important disorders of beddy-bye organization. They begin agitated beddy-bye with common periods of nocturnal awakenings and a abatement of the continuance and allotment of the added accelerated eye movement (REM) beddy-bye – aswell begin in added forms of indisposition acquired by magnesium deficiency. (1)
According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota, “Magnesium plays a key role in the body's allure that regulates sleep. This may be why bodies with abiding abridgement of sleep, or aberrant academician after-effects during abysmal sleep, generally accept low magnesium in their blood….Magnesium analysis added abysmal beddy-bye and bigger academician after-effects during beddy-bye in 12 aged subjects. Magnesium analysis aswell decreased time to abatement cold and bigger beddy-bye above of 11 alcoholic patients who generally accept a low magnesium status.”
Regarding the use of comestible beddy-bye aids absolute magnesium for abatement of active leg affection and added beddy-bye problems, assertive formulas are added able than others. The aggregate of minerals included and the attendance of cofactors in the artefact are key. Formulas should accommodate a 2 to 1 arrangement of calcium to magnesium. The aboriginal analysis on this recommended arrangement appeared in 1935 in the Journal of Physiological Reviews (2) and is fabricated on the base of abiding metabolic studies in men and women.
One accustomed beddy-bye aid assuming acceptable after-effects is Sleep Minerals II, fabricated by Nutrition Breakthroughs in Glendale, CA. This beddy-bye aid contains six types of calcium, three forms of magnesium, boron, Vitamin D, Vitamin K and horsetail assemble - all accumulated in a softgel with carrier oils. Oils such as black primrose accept been apparent to access mineral absorption, abate calcium excretion, and access cartilage density.
Sleep Minerals II has had amiable after-effects with abating active leg syndrome. Ali M. of Istanbul Turkey says: “I accept been a pharmacist in Istanbul Turkey for about 40 years and I aswell plan as a adviser in aliment supplements. I ache from active leg affection at night. I afresh approved your Sleep Minerals II and it had an amazing amiable result. My youngest brother, who is aswell a pharmacist, aswell suffers from active leg syndrome. He approved the Sleep Minerals II with the aforementioned result. My mother age-old 92 was accusatory of beddy-bye problems and insomnia. She aswell approved it and the aftereffect was afresh successful. If I hadn’t accomplished it myself, I would accept begin it harder to believe."
Many humans ache from active leg affection and some sources accept alleged it an cureless disease. Regular use of the appropriate affectionate of mineral supplement just ability accommodate the bare relief.
For added advice on appointment http://www.NutritionBreakthroughs.com, alarm 818-913-4308, or address to Nutrition Breakthroughs at 1413 Fifth St., Suite D, Glendale, CA. 91201.
For data on Sleep Minerals II, bang here: http://www.nutritionbreakthroughs.com/html/insomnia__get_some_deep__restf.html
References
1: Clinical, EEG, electromyographic and polysomnographic studies in active legs affection acquired by magnesium deficiency. Rom J Neurol Psychiatry.1993 Jan-Mar; 31(1):55-61. PubMed PMID: 8363978.
2. Schmidt C.L.A., Greenberg D.M., Physiol Rev, 15: 297.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, about six out of ten Americans address accepting indisposition and beddy-bye problems at atomic a few nights a week. Other types of indisposition cover beddy-bye apnea, which involves disconnected breath and comatose during the night; narcolepsy - which causes humans to abatement cold throughout the daytime; indisposition from hormone fluctuations such as with menstruation or menopause; and indisposition from the use of medications, caffeine or alcohol.
Those who accept active leg affection acquaintance abhorrent sensations in the legs declared as creeping, crawling, tingling, pulling, or painful. These sensations usually action in the dogie across but may be acquainted anywhere from the thigh to the ankle. People with RLS generally acquaintance abiding indisposition and indisposition due to the able appetite to airing or do added activities to abate the sensations in their legs.
In one abstraction from the Romanian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, advisers conducted biochemical and acoustic tests in 10 cases of active leg syndrome. The board appear important disorders of beddy-bye organization. They begin agitated beddy-bye with common periods of nocturnal awakenings and a abatement of the continuance and allotment of the added accelerated eye movement (REM) beddy-bye – aswell begin in added forms of indisposition acquired by magnesium deficiency. (1)
According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota, “Magnesium plays a key role in the body's allure that regulates sleep. This may be why bodies with abiding abridgement of sleep, or aberrant academician after-effects during abysmal sleep, generally accept low magnesium in their blood….Magnesium analysis added abysmal beddy-bye and bigger academician after-effects during beddy-bye in 12 aged subjects. Magnesium analysis aswell decreased time to abatement cold and bigger beddy-bye above of 11 alcoholic patients who generally accept a low magnesium status.”
Regarding the use of comestible beddy-bye aids absolute magnesium for abatement of active leg affection and added beddy-bye problems, assertive formulas are added able than others. The aggregate of minerals included and the attendance of cofactors in the artefact are key. Formulas should accommodate a 2 to 1 arrangement of calcium to magnesium. The aboriginal analysis on this recommended arrangement appeared in 1935 in the Journal of Physiological Reviews (2) and is fabricated on the base of abiding metabolic studies in men and women.
One accustomed beddy-bye aid assuming acceptable after-effects is Sleep Minerals II, fabricated by Nutrition Breakthroughs in Glendale, CA. This beddy-bye aid contains six types of calcium, three forms of magnesium, boron, Vitamin D, Vitamin K and horsetail assemble - all accumulated in a softgel with carrier oils. Oils such as black primrose accept been apparent to access mineral absorption, abate calcium excretion, and access cartilage density.
Sleep Minerals II has had amiable after-effects with abating active leg syndrome. Ali M. of Istanbul Turkey says: “I accept been a pharmacist in Istanbul Turkey for about 40 years and I aswell plan as a adviser in aliment supplements. I ache from active leg affection at night. I afresh approved your Sleep Minerals II and it had an amazing amiable result. My youngest brother, who is aswell a pharmacist, aswell suffers from active leg syndrome. He approved the Sleep Minerals II with the aforementioned result. My mother age-old 92 was accusatory of beddy-bye problems and insomnia. She aswell approved it and the aftereffect was afresh successful. If I hadn’t accomplished it myself, I would accept begin it harder to believe."
Many humans ache from active leg affection and some sources accept alleged it an cureless disease. Regular use of the appropriate affectionate of mineral supplement just ability accommodate the bare relief.
For added advice on appointment http://www.NutritionBreakthroughs.com, alarm 818-913-4308, or address to Nutrition Breakthroughs at 1413 Fifth St., Suite D, Glendale, CA. 91201.
For data on Sleep Minerals II, bang here: http://www.nutritionbreakthroughs.com/html/insomnia__get_some_deep__restf.html
References
1: Clinical, EEG, electromyographic and polysomnographic studies in active legs affection acquired by magnesium deficiency. Rom J Neurol Psychiatry.1993 Jan-Mar; 31(1):55-61. PubMed PMID: 8363978.
2. Schmidt C.L.A., Greenberg D.M., Physiol Rev, 15: 297.
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