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Originally Posted by Captain Tele
crazy stuff
the huge time delay being the part that really confuses me
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"Dry drowning" is basically a condition you develop, as I understand it, when you basically inhale a little tiny bit of water, just enough to cause inflammation in the lungs. The lungs become so inflamed that within a day, you start showing symptoms of shortness of breath, a cough, sometimes vomiting, and your oxygen supply slowly starves out until you die from respiratory failure.
It accounts for about 2% of all drowning cases, mostly affects small children. The name is somewhat misleading, you're not "drowning" really from the water, you're dying from oxygen deprivation caused by the inflammation of the lung tissue.
There are symptoms indicating that there's something wrong, and it's treatable if you get your kid in to see a doctor before it's too late. The only thing shocking about that kid dying from it is that the parents never thought to take the ****ing kid to a doctor before he was dead. This kid didn't die from "dry drowning" as much as he did from "****ty parenting".