title: Sudden infant death and chronic infant disorders: the N.E.S.T. model versus the lethal Cot-death syndrome hoax.
abstract: The Cot-death Syndrome is an out-moded model which is bizarre and unique in medical history for it enables a certificate of cause of death to be issued only if no medical cause can be found. It rewards incompetence. Apart from being a placebo for bereaved parents and a lucrative source of research funds it is unsupportable, lethal nonsense and it must be discarded. There are studies which prove that most infant death and chronic infant illnesses are linked and are primarily associated with environmental stress. The infant death problem is not a medical problem except where the stress trauma is of medical origin. The N.E.S.T. (Non-disease Environmental Stress Trauma) perspective provides a model which has elements of causation, prediction and prevention. It requires that intense investigation be carried out in an unbiased manner that is not hindered by a convenience syndrome barrier to truth. Unfortunately twenty years of adherence to the medical profession's Cot-death Syndrome hoax has meant that the evidence pin-pointing specific, causative environmental stress factors has been denigrated and disregarded. This has permitted the asthma convenience syndrome to thrive. Still-birth or infant death that is not due to disease or inherited causation can only be caused by environment stress trauma. Identifying and preventing such stress trauma is the key to healthy birth and to avoiding infant death and chronic infant disorders.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Tyler
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008954:Models, Biological; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000150:complications; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000209:etiology*; D013577:Syndrome