COLORADO - A silver lining has appeared in the death of a 4-year-old boy who died of dry drowning days after he went swimming.
Francisco Delgado's story saved the life of another boy.
After reading about Delgado's death, a father in Colorado recognized the symptoms in his 2-year-old boy after he had been swimming.
KTRK reports Garon Vega said his son, Gio, had a fever trouble breathing after swallowing water while swimming.
Vega immediately took Gio to the hospital where doctors told him his son would not have made it through the night without his quick response.
The incident came just days after news of Delgado's death made national headlines. Delgado died of dry drowning almost a week after he had been swimming.
"I feel like I needed to reach out to the parents of little Frankie and tell them, I don't know how to word it, but their little boy saved our little boy's life," Vega told KTRK.
Dry or secondary drowning occurs when someone breathes water into his or her lungs. It occurs more prominently in children, but can also happen with adults.
In dry drowning cases, the water causes vocal chords to spasm and close, shutting off the airway and making it hard to breathe.
With secondary drowning, the airways open and let water into the lungs, causing pulmonary edema, which is when fluid builds up and makes it difficult to breathe.
Symptoms of secondary drowning may not show for up to 24 hours after a patient has gone swimming.
The symptoms of both dry and secondary drowning include coughing, chest pain, trouble breathing and feeling tired.
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Lamosas on June 10th, 2017 at 06:16 UTC »
What Are the Warning Signs?
Trouble breathing. Coughing. Sleepiness or a drop in energy level. Irritability. Chest pain. Vomiting.
With dry drowning, water never reaches the lungs. Instead, breathing in water causes your child's vocal chords to spasm and close up after he's already left the pool, ocean, or lake. ... The end result is the same: trouble breathing. Symptoms of dry drowning usually happen right after any incident in the water.
Dry drowning occurs when a person's lungsbecome unable to extract oxygen from the air, due primarily to:
Muscular paralysisPuncture wound to the torso (affecting ability of diaphragm to create respiratory movement)Changes to the oxygen-absorbing tissuesPersistence of laryngospasm when immersed in fluidProlonged exposure to a gas that displaces oxygen from the lungs (e.g. methane)Overdose of solute free water which leads to hyponatremia and swelling in the brainHolding one's breath (Apnea)
The person may effectively drown without any sort of liquid. In cases of dry drowning in which the victim was immersed, very little fluid is aspirated into the lungs. The laryngospasm reflex essentially causes asphyxiation and neurogenic pulmonary edema[1] (œdema).
Just copy pasted from the Google
MaleNudity on June 10th, 2017 at 03:41 UTC »
I'm sure many people, like myself, didn't even know this was a thing. Hopefully this story makes people aware and more lives will be saved because of it.
dylangrubbj on June 10th, 2017 at 03:38 UTC »
Wild. Didn't even know such a thing as "dry drowning" existed.