4:17pm Thursday 2nd September 2010
By Lawrence Dunhill
DOCTORS could not explain the sudden death of a baby boy, an inquest heard today.
Alex Swanborough, of School Close in Chesham, was two-months-old and died on May 1.
Dr Stephen Gould, a paediatric pathologist, told the family at Wycombe Law Courts: “I couldn't find any evidence of infection that would have been significant enough to cause death.”
He said the baby's temperature or an infection may have been factors but added: “There must still be something else going on that we just don't understand.”
He said cot deaths such as these are "becoming increasingly rare”.
Richard Hulett, the Buckinghamshire coroner, said: “He was a fully formed, appropriately nourished baby consistent with his given age. A healthy child has just expired.”
He concluded the death was by natural causes.
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