"Dry Drowning" news


so back when memorial weekend was in affect, a family's worst day was in devolvement.

"A four-year-old boy from Houston, Texas has died of “dry drowning” almost a week after he last went swimming."  that's rough, my condolences go out to the family, but when I read the head line and it said died a whole week later after swimming I didn't understand at first," Dry drowning occurs after a child inhales water through the nose or mouth and the liquid gets into the lungs" but still kind of fuzzy how a whole week could go by. there are tale, tale signs of symptoms of dry drowning and ways to prevent it."Symptoms of dry drowning can include coughing, fever, vomiting, mood swings and struggling for breath...Symptoms could appear 24 to 48 hours after inhaling water",“If a kid chokes or sputters after going under water but seems fine, he doesn’t need to go to the hospital,” Pitetti said. “But if several hours later he starts breathing faster and is finding it harder to breathe and starts coughing a lot, then you want to bring him in.”