The BRUE are very little known and yet many mothers have warned about these incidents that happen to babies and which can be shocking. How are they characterized?
While Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is now more and more well known and many parents apply the advice to avoid it, BRUEs remain unknown to many people. BRUE is an English acronym that means brief resolved unexplained event, or brief incidents resolved and unexplained, these are incidents lasting less than a minute that happen to babies under one year old. A BRUE is characterized by profuse, diminished or irregular breathing, paleness of the baby, different reactivity than usual and either excessive or very light muscle tone. Parents have the impression that their baby is no longer breathing, but rest assured these incidents have no consequences on the health of the child. The doctors carry out all the necessary examinations to ensure that the baby is in good health.
BRUEs can be traumatic for parents, already because they are not known so it is difficult to know what is happening to your baby and moreover because they arrive in a totally unexpected way. Many parents testified on social networks to alert those who do not know about these incidents and the testimonies are chilling.
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Chilling testimonials from parents who have experienced it
Shakia Harris told Today.com what they went through with their son. Little Kingston was only 4 days old when they had an appointment with the pediatrician. The doctor told them that everything was fine, that the little one was fit and healthy. When Shakia and her partner returned home, they relaxed with the little one and suddenly the situation turned tragic: “Kingston’s body convulsed. My husband was holding it up and he was shaking like he was having a seizure. His lips turned blue and he was making strange noises like he was trying to cry. I was terrified” The young mother called the emergency services and once they arrived at the hospital the doctors discovered that the child had had a BRUE, a brief resolved and unexplained incident.
Another mom Sarah Bendel also experienced a traumatic event with her baby and shared it on Tik Tok. His video has gone viral, we see Jojo her baby through the convulsing baby monitor. Sarah told Scary Mommy what happened: “She had turned dark red and she looked stiff. I took her in my arms and she was all stiff – more importantly, she didn’t make a sound. No shouting. No cough. She wasn’t breathing.” Before this incident everything was fine for the little girl, and doctors determined she had suffered a BRUE.