Baby Must be Tickled for Breathing

News Health Articles - Baby Must be Tickled for Breathing. In many cases, a person can die from too much laughing. But a baby in the UK just have to laugh so that his lungs could not stop breathing, so his mother had always intrigued him throughout the day.

Baby boy named Benn is the son of Sanchia Norris (41 years) who was born November 2010 in Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire. If another baby being tickled just to have fun, for Benn tickling Norris is the savior that allowed him to keep breathing.



Benn had apnea, a condition that makes muscles weak lungs can suddenly stop breathing while sleeping. In the night, Morris said her son can stop breathing up to 23 times and by so much the life is in danger.

Every time Benn stopped breathing, an alarm is installed to detect movement of the lung muscles will sound and wake Norris. In less than 20 seconds, Norris had to get up and start tickling the soles of the feet or abdomen Benn to stimulate the muscles.

"I had to stimulate him in various ways, such as tickling the soles of the feet, jaw or stomach. That's enough to make her breathe again," said Norris who worked as a tax consultant, as quoted from Dailymail, Wednesday (12/28/2011).

Apnea is a condition commonly found in premature infants as Benn. If a normal newborn infants after 9 months of pregnancy, Benn was born in the 24th week (6th month) and when that no one thought he would survive until now.

Shortly after birth, when it was Benn who only weighs about 800 grams had entered the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or the intensive care for newborns. But after 18 weeks, the doctor allowed him to go home and comes with an alarm detection of lung muscles.