The infant’s body was airlifted to Lyon, where an autopsy must be performed to confirm or not the trail of sudden infant death syndrome.
Thursday, January 5, a 5-month-old infant was found dead in Péronnas, in Ain. It was his childminder who discovered him unconscious after his nap, reports Progress.
Warned around 3:45 p.m., the emergency services dispatched significant resources to the scene. Several teams of firefighters, supported by a medical team from the Samu were sent to the home of the childminder. But despite attempts to resuscitate the child, a Samu doctor finally pronounced him dead.
Police officers from Bourg-en-Bresse also went to the home where the tragedy took place, to make initial findings, and an investigation was opened to determine the exact causes of the child’s death.
Hélène Cédileau, first magistrate of Péronnas, spoke of a “horrible drama”, relates Progress. A source close to the investigation told the daily that it was the track of “sudden infant death” which was preferred.
Autopsy conducted in Lyon
Thus, Thursday in the evening, the body of the child was helicoptered to Lyon in order to carry out an emergency autopsy, which will allow or not to confirm this track.
As related by University Hospital of Lyonthe “unexpected infant death syndrome (UND)” refers to the “incomprehensible at first glance and unpredictable death, most often during sleep, of a toddler who hitherto seemed in good apparent health”.
This unexpected death “can affect a baby from 0 to 24 months, but in 8 cases out of 10, it occurs before the age of 6 months”, continues the Lyon University Hospital.
Public health France specifies that “after an exhaustive etiological assessment (anamnesis, examination of the place of death, clinical examination, biological samples, imaging, autopsy), this MIN can be attributed to an infectious, genetic, cardiac, metabolic, traumatic origin, accidental, etc.
But in about 50% of cases, no medical explanation is found. It was then that sudden infant death syndrome was officially mentioned.
