Sleep machines can harm babies

Placing an infant to sleep next to a lullaby may increase the risk of hearing loss, affecting his speech ability and language development.

Research by Children's Hospital Hospital Toronto published in the Journal of Pediatrics on March 3 said, through testing 14 models of sleeping newborn ru machines are opened with maximum volume and at other distances each other, such as attaching to a crib, placing it close to a crib and leaving it in the nursery, all machines exceed the sound level of safety for children.

Dr Blake Papsin, who participated in the study, said parents who use a device to sleep babies often let the sound level too loud, exceeding 50 dB (decibels) - a safe level of noise for babies. born.

Dr. Papsin explains the sound emitted by the baby lullaby as a medicine, if the overdose is not safe. Your child's ear canal is more sensitive to some audio frequencies than adults. Parents may misjudge the volume, suggesting that they are not large enough to lull their babies to sleep, so the sound level is too high compared to the actual needs, harming their hearing.

The team recommends that parents should seek to reduce or not use a child sleeper, double glazing for children's room windows, carpeting the floor, and placing electronic devices in the home away from children. . If you still want to use a sleep device, set it away from your child and keep the volume low.

In addition, the researchers also suggested that the manufacturer of the young lullaby sleep the warning label on the product, while developing a new model with a timer to limit exposure to noise.