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Health Update: Cot comfort

Cherrill Hicks
Monday 23 August 1993 23:02 BST
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WITH over-heating now thought to be implicated in cot deaths, new guidelines from the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggest that a sleep-suit, one sheet and from two to seven blankets, depending on the season, should allow babies to remain 'thermo-neutral'. The tog ratings of duvets, however, are not mentioned.

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