Misdiagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
| About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or confirming a diagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Alternative diagnoses list for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: For a diagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the following list of conditions have been mentioned in sources as possible alternative diagnoses to consider during the diagnostic process for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
- Infanticide (type of Homicide)
- Accidental smothering - such as a toddler sibling playing peekabo with a pillow.
- Hypoglycemia - From some undiagnosed disorder.
- Vaccination adverse reaction (type of Adverse reaction) - this has been suggested in some cases; remains highly controversial; various studies disprove.
- Whooping cough - some studies have shown that various babies diagnosed with SIDS had positive reactions for pertussis; because infants may not always cough with pertussis, it may be possible for a pertussis-related death to be misdiagnosed as SIDS. Thus pertussis vaccination may be a prevention of SIDS.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as an alternative diagnosis: The other diseases for which Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is listed as a possible alternative diagnosis in their lists include:
Medical news summaries about misdiagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: The following medical news items are relevant to misdiagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
Misdiagnosis cases for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
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Last revision:
June 18, 2003
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