November 2005

ICA pediatrics group weighs in on pacifier use and SIDS

The International Chiropractors Association’s Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics, in a response to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent guideline on the use of the pacifier to reduce the incidence of SIDS in infants, states that this is a measure that is well known to chiropractic pediatric practitioners.

The ICA Council has been teaching the use of the pacifier to encourage sucking as a means of facilitating CSF flow for many years in its postgraduate and continuing education classes. The council’s position is that pacifiers should not be used as a means of distraction or keeping the child from crying but rather as a means to encourage proper neurological function in the child under one year of age.

Prolonged pacifier use, as well as situational pacifier use for appeasement however is not encouraged especially after the age of one.

Source: International Chiropractors Association Council on Pediatrics, www.icapediatrics.com

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