Chesham baby's sudden death left unexplained (From Bucks Free Press)

Chesham baby's sudden death left unexplained

4:17pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in

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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.