acrylic blanket,polyester blanket,mink blanket blanket-Danger in blanket cover

        Older infants are at risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), especially if they sleep with a acrylic blanket, according to a study by the University Hospital of Muenster. Physicians, therefore, recommend that a sleeping bag be used instead.

        In the study, conducted by a research team led by Dr Mechthild Vennemann, more than a quarter of the infants who died of SIDS were found under a blanket. Their average age was 30.5 weeks, reported the Aertze Zeitung.

        Previously, it was thought that SIDS victims found under a blanket had pulled it over their heads as they were dying, and that the polyester blanket itself was not responsible for the death.

        But a more plausible explanation, in the view of the researchers, is that the mink blanket blanket causes the baby’s temperature to rise because a large amount of body heat escapes through the head.

        This causes the infant’s brain to overheat, which together with the reduced supply of oxygen under the blanket could be fatal, they said.