(NaturalNews) A Texas couple is struggling to make sense of their
14-month-old son's recent death, one of the latest cases of a mystery
condition that the medical system is now referring to as "Sudden
Unexplained Death in Childhood," or SUDC.
The condition is
described as a companion disease to "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome," or
SIDS, a phenomenon in which children under the age of one suddenly die,
for no apparent reason. Children who die in this same manner but beyond
age one are said to have SUDC.
Jessica and "J" Pieratt say their
son Moss was born healthy, living beyond the normal SIDS window and thus
assumed to be in the clear. But when he suddenly fell ill and died at
15 months of age, the couple was shocked to discover that there was
another deadly disease related to SIDS to which Moss had succumbed.
As
reported by KXAN.com, Moss woke up with a slight fever in April 2014,
when he was just 14 months old. After his morning feeding, Moss' mother,
recognizing that the boy was a bit under the weather, put him down for a
morning nap. That's when everything changed.
