Sentences with phrase «dive reflex»

We were investigating how a certain medication affects the dive reflex, which determines how their circulatory system reacts.

He also advises starting by soaking your face in cold water to activate the «mammalian dive reflex».

Cold water is of key importance here, because, the dive reflex is not triggered by warm water.

This suggests that the dive reflex is probably not triggered in babies immersed in these pools.

Since it's not the dive reflex, what then prevents all those babies in the videos from breathing underwater?

I have not heard of the term «dive reflex,» or even that it was related to what your child experienced as an infant.

Reading that the dive reflex is also referred to as the bradycardic response set off a few alarms bells in me, and led me to to an investigation into the safety of the much - promoted tactic of ducking a young baby's head underwater to avoid him or her developing a fear of water.

Hi Simone, I will be happy to add a succinct definition of the dive reflex, or at least I'll do my best.

It's looking like a lot of people haven't heard of the dive reflex, and many more don't understand it!

I had similar thoughts to you about the dive reflex until I began to investigate further.

But there is more to the dive reflex than most of us assume, and some of its effects may not be what you would want for your baby.

Never heard of «dive reflex» before but you have certainly put your point over well.

I had never heard of «dive reflex»; the story of the Italiam baby is very tragic.

The Journal of Clinical Pathology reports that this baby died from «Sudden infant death triggered by dive reflex.»

The points you make about the dive reflex are covered in the article.

The truth is it is part of the dive reflex, but not all of it.

If your baby is fit, healthy and well then the answer is probably yes, but since the true dive reflex is triggered by very cold water and leads to a drop in your baby's heart beat, I can not see why anyone would want to rely on this.

Most people have heard of the «dive reflex,» which apparently means that babies are born able to swim.

I am very grateful to fellow writer TFScientist for this explanation of the newborn dive reflex: «It is baby hitting the air that causes it to start breathing.

From what I read most people don't seem to understand the dive reflex, including many people who talk about it.

The dive reflex is slightly different as it is a physiological response triggered by cold water, and because so many people are confused by it, it's always best to take a baby to a reputable swimming class.

Wow, «dive reflex.»

The next night he died, and the autopsy indicated that the dive reflex, brought on by his face being submerged in cold water, was the cause.

Just saw a post on the Mayo Clinic website written by CNM / RN who said among other things «water birth doesn't increase the risk of infection» and she talks about the dive reflex.

Not exact matches

However, after some 10 dives or so, your baby will have learned to hold his breath by himself instead of relying on the diving reflex.

By the way: our instructor always check if the breath holding reflex is still there by pouring some water from a watering can over their heads before letting the babies dive.

If you think mmo combat has increased in complexity, then you probably never dived into Everquest on a deeper level, or you have a very different idea of what constitute difficulty (twitch reflexes counting as difficulty and co-op and tactical decision making not counting?