FDA, CPSC Say Infant Sleep Positioners a Hazard, Release Warnings Against Use
By J.B. Oliver on September 30, 2010

Baby sleep positioners, which have been popular for the last several years have been branded too dangerous to use by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Food and Drug Administration.

The baby positioners are often marketed to aid safe sleep but the warning comes after the FDA received two confirmed reports of infants suffocating as a result of their use in the last year. In all 12 deaths have been attributed to use of the products.

Inez Tenenbaum, chairman of the CPSC, says that parents should ‘stop using these sleep positioners, so that children can have a safer sleep.” She added: ‘The deaths and dangerous situations resulting from the use of infant sleep positioners are a serious concern.’

Sleep positioners are also often marketed as a way to prevent acid reflux in babies and help keep babies on their backs to sleep, the preferred position of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In the past the FDA has approved eighteen different models of infant sleep positioners but now they are changing their stance and have begun writing to manufacturers to ask them to stop selling the products.

‘Right now, our view is that given the risk, the modest evidence of benefit does not outweigh the risk,’ FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein said in a press statement.
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