Showing posts with label delayed drowning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label delayed drowning. Show all posts

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Summertime and the Drowning Panic...

So now that it's almost summertime, the post about drowning not looking like drowning is making its rounds again.  Posted a link this last year, but here it is again:  http://mamanuggets.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html

But to strike fear in parents' hearts even further, now there's a story about a kid "drowning" hours after having gone swimming.  What the WHAT?
http://www.today.com/id/24982210/ns/today-today_health/t/boys-death-highlights-hidden-danger-dry-drowning/#.UbNt63DR3zJ

Having said that much, the kid didn't technically die of "dry drowning," apparently.  He died of "delayed drowning" (which means that he had water in his lungs).  Here's a link that describes the difference and how to prevent actual "dry drowning."  Thought it was important enough to share.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/drydrowning.asp

As for us, I think we're just going to stick with sprinklers, thankyouverymuch.