Do you know what Shaken Baby Syndrome is?

Question

Answer honestly please or it will throw off my study (this is for a project). If you do want to know what it is then just e-mail me, or do some research online.

Answer 1

its when a baby is shaken at a young age and it messes up their brain and they have disabilities.

Answer 2

What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
Shaken baby syndrome is a type of inflicted traumatic brain injury that happens when a baby is violently shaken. A baby has weak neck muscles and a large, heavy head. Shaking makes the fragile brain bounce back and forth inside the skull and causes bruising, swelling, and bleeding, which can lead to permanent, severe brain damage or death. The characteristic injuries of shaken baby syndrome are subdural hemorrhages (bleeding in the brain), retinal hemorrhages (bleeding in the retina), damage to the spinal cord and neck, and fractures of the ribs and bones. These injuries may not be immediately noticeable. Symptoms of shaken baby syndrome include extreme irritability, lethargy, poor feeding, breathing problems, convulsions, vomiting, and pale or bluish skin. Shaken baby injuries usually occur in children younger than 2 years old, but may be seen in children up to the age of 5.

Answer 3

Yes. SBS is the result of violently shaking a baby, usually under 2yrs old, back and forth, causing the head to rapidly snap back and forth. The result inside the skull is that the brain is literally slammed against the inside of the skull. This causes injury to the soft brain tissue, hence bleeding and swelling of the brain. I have even seen the brain stem become separated from the spinal column resulting in immediate death of the victim.

The range of injury to a shaken baby can range from a small healing injury with no lasting impairment, to various degrees of mental and physical impairment from mild to severe, to death.

Merely shaking a baby is not sufficient to cause the injuries sustained in SBS. It requires strength and very rapid back and forth movement in a very determined and usually rage filled manner. It is not an accidental or play full shaking of a baby. It takes FORCE to do it.

Answer 4

Shaken baby syndrome is a term used to describe the constellation of signs and symptoms resulting from violent shaking or shaking and impacting of the head of an infant or small child. The degree of brain damage depends on the amount and duration of the shaking and the forces involved in impact of the head. Signs and symptoms range on a spectrum of neurological alterations from minor (irritability, lethargy, tremors, vomiting) to major (seizures, coma, stupor, death). These neurological changes are due to destruction of brain cells secondary to trauma, lack of oxygen to the brain cells, and swelling of the brain. Extensive retinal hemorrhages in one or both eyes are found in the vast majority of these cases. The classic triad of subdural hematoma, brain swelling and retinal hemorrhages are accompanied in some, but not all, cases by bruising of the part of the body used as a "handle" for shaking. Fractures of the long bones and/or of the ribs may also be seen in some cases. In many cases, however, there is no external evidence of trauma either to the head or the body.

Answer 5

Shaken infant syndrome (SBS) is a form of youngster abuse that occurs while an abuser violently shakes an infant or small newborn, arising a whiplash-form action that motives acceleration-deceleration injuries. In different words, bouncing the infant on an identical time as burping her isn't adequate stress to reason SBS. you're nice. I mean who does not leap their infant a splash while that's time for burping. tell Grandma, that each and every thing is nice and to relax a splash. you at the instant are not doing something to harm your little lady.

Answer 6

Yes, it is when someone shakes a baby too much and it dies, the baby could be shaken from, anger, stress, or any other reason, possibly that the baby isn't responding, and someone is even trying to help.

Answer 7

When you shake a baby, his brain literally bangs against the inside of his skull and bruises, sometimes causing permanent damage.

Answer 8

Its where someone shakes a baby so violently that it suffers life threatening, possibly fatal, injuries. Usually its from someone who shouldn't have contact with kids in the first place, in my opinion.

Answer 9

yes