Boy Drowns In Bed: Dry Drowning, Not As Uncommon As You’d Think.

Posted on June 7, 2008
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A title to a news post about a 10 year old boy drowning in bed is pretty attention grabbing, not least because it seems pretty unusual to say the least, but upon reading just a little more to find out that 15% of all drownings happen when the victim is no longer in the water is more the a little creepy.

For a 70 pound child even an ounce of water getting into the lungs is enough to cause the larynx or windpipe to spasm and the airways to become blocked.

The incident that caught my attention first took place in Jackson, Florida, but a quick Google search for some more details on that event shows that several other children have lost their lives in the same way in recent history.

Stuff like this always makes me think, particularly when you wonder if there was anything that could have been done, or if in that same situation would you spot that there was a problem in time you would miss any potential problems completely. So I put this down as something to be aware of following some water related mishap, but otherwise won’t let it trouble me.

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