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A toxicologist who studies the effects of drugs on children told jurors Monday that the only plausible explanation for the death of toddler Dane Heggem was that he suffocated in his sleep after being given a dose of allergy medication.
"I think he was sedated. Then he was put or got on his stomach, his face was resting at the bottom of his playpen, and he didn't breathe enough because he was sedated," said Dr. Philip Walson a pediatric toxicologist/pharmacologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. "He stopped breathing, and then his heart stopped."
Prosecutors say Tiny Tots day-care center operator Sabine Bieber gave Dane and at least three other children in her care doses of liquid diphenhydramine an antihistamine found in Benadryl with their lunches to get them to sleep.
Heggem had elevated levels of diphenhydramine in his blood and urine at the time of his death, and investigators found evidence of antihistamines in the diapers of other Tiny Tots children in her care.
Bieber admits she purchased more than 63 bottles of Diphedryl brand diphenhydramine in the two years leading up to Dane's Jan. 31, 2003, death, but she denies giving Dane any medication the day he died.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/bieber/082205_ctv.html
"I think he was sedated. Then he was put or got on his stomach, his face was resting at the bottom of his playpen, and he didn't breathe enough because he was sedated," said Dr. Philip Walson a pediatric toxicologist/pharmacologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. "He stopped breathing, and then his heart stopped."
Prosecutors say Tiny Tots day-care center operator Sabine Bieber gave Dane and at least three other children in her care doses of liquid diphenhydramine an antihistamine found in Benadryl with their lunches to get them to sleep.
Heggem had elevated levels of diphenhydramine in his blood and urine at the time of his death, and investigators found evidence of antihistamines in the diapers of other Tiny Tots children in her care.
Bieber admits she purchased more than 63 bottles of Diphedryl brand diphenhydramine in the two years leading up to Dane's Jan. 31, 2003, death, but she denies giving Dane any medication the day he died.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/bieber/082205_ctv.html