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What is Dry Drowning? Signs and Basic First Aid Skills!
The increasing number of drowning cases in children has caused many parents to worry. Among them, dry drowning is a situation that causes many parents to panic. So what is the cause of this unfortunate incident? What should be noted in the solution to prevent this situation? To understand more clearly, let's find out the details with doboinam.vn through the article below.
What is dry drowning?
Dry drowning is also known as secondary drowning or dry drowning. This condition usually occurs within 1 to 72 hours after swimming. Or near drowning in water, or bathing in water for too long, choking on water,...
Dry drowning usually occurs 1 to 72 hours after swimming.
Dry drowning is when a victim inhales water into their lungs while swimming underwater. Even a small amount of water entering the lungs can prevent the lungs from supplying oxygen to the blood. This can lead to pulmonary edema, respiratory failure, and more seriously, secondary drowning.
With respiratory failure on land, the victim's heart rate has not slowed when reaching the shore. The victim can still breathe, walk, and talk normally but is weaker (due to the amount of water still in the body that has not been completely removed).
Although this is a rare condition, anyone can experience it. And if you are careless, ignoring the symptoms and warning signs can lead to dangerous incidents, and more seriously, death. Therefore, to prevent and protect yourself from unnecessary risks when swimming. You need to ensure that you are fully equipped with supporting accessories: swimsuits, swimming goggles,...
What are the symptoms of dry drowning?
According to medical experts, the symptoms of dry drowning occur within 1-72 hours after swimming or water activities. When swimmers, especially children, have the following symptoms, they need to be taken to the hospital immediately for emergency treatment:
The most common symptoms of drowning
- Excessive fatigue after swimming
- Shortness of breath after bathing
- Sudden mood swings (irritability, grumpiness, aggression for no apparent reason)
- Stuttering, severe coughing, slow and lethargic body, poor cognition,...
In addition, the important factor in intervention and treatment of drowning is time. Especially medical intervention when the patient has pulmonary edema. Therefore, swimmers who experience the above signs after swimming should be taken to the hospital immediately for timely emergency treatment.
Basic first aid skills for drowning on land
Some basic skills to help quickly rescue drowning people, avoiding unfortunate incidents that can be life-threatening:
When the victim is out of the water, carry him/her on your shoulders with his/her legs in front and his/her head facing back to let the water in his/her lungs out. Do this for only 5-10 seconds.
Avoid running the victim upside down as this can cause gastric reflux. This can cause the victim to inhale intestinal contents, causing choking and subsequent lung damage.
Parents should not be negligent or subjective when taking their children swimming.
Lay the victim down, check for a pulse, then perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and press the heart to make it beat again. At the same time, urgently call for help and emergency personnel. However, you need to ensure that the chest compressions are done correctly, because if the chest compressions are not done correctly, it can cause lung damage, lung contusion or rib fractures, which can be dangerous for the victim.
If the victim is not yet conscious, do not stop the breathing and chest compressions. Because if you stop the movements and take the victim to the emergency room, it is very easy to die. Therefore, try to let the victim wake up and stabilize, then take him to the emergency room. Or give first aid and take him to the emergency room at the same time.
Dry drowning is uncommon in many children and is less common in adults. However, parents should not be negligent or subjective when taking their children swimming.
Through the above analysis, you have the answer to what is dry drowning ? What are the symptoms? How to give first aid properly. Moreover, dry drowning has a higher probability of occurring in young children. Therefore, parents need to understand the basic swimming skills to avoid incidents and bad incidents that may occur when taking children swimming.
