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...anatomy, lying on the tummy does not allow the jaw to fall forward as it does in an adult," says British pediatrician Peter Fleming, who has studied sleeping position for more than a decade. "It pushes the jaw slightly backward, and with a huge tongue and small airways, that may actually contribute to airway obstruction." Babies also sleep more deeply on their stomach than on their back and take longer to awaken -- perhaps fatally longer -- if something goes wrong physiologically. Other theories suggest that babies who sleep on their stomach become more easily overheated, which weakens their respiratory drive...
...sufferer is snoozing, throat muscles that keep breathing passages open relax so much that the airway closes. As much as a minute may pass before the sleeper gasps for air and rouses briefly. In a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 4% of women and 9% of men stopped breathing at least 15 times an hour during a night's sleep. Because they are seldom fully awake, most apnea sufferers are unaware that their sleep is disrupted. The only clue may come from a bed partner whose own rest is disturbed by the breathing...
Most controversial of all is the suggestion that physicians themselves have exacerbated the epidemic. Over the years, doctors have come to rely on powerful adrenaline-like substances called beta-agonists to treat asthma. When inhaled, these drugs open airway blockages in the lungs. But in the past 18 months a couple of studies have indicated that beta-agonists may be overprescribed. They are still the drug of choice during an acute attack, but many specialists now contend that if patients need to use beta-agonists four or more times a day, their treatment should be changed because their underlying condition...
Hageman worries that some people might start using smaller coins to make the game safer, but he warns that "a smaller coin would he the perfect size to lodge in the airway at the back of the throat" and cause death quickly...
...jobs. And here is the Ku Klux Klan threatening a rally and cross-burning outside town on the very day that the United League of North Mississippi, a black civil rights group, has scheduled a protest march. Both groups are headed for the county courthouse. All week little Southern Airway's 18-seat Metros, known locally as "weed eaters," have been pumping in from Memphis and Atlanta, loaded with Klansmen and league supporters from as far away as San Francisco...