To drown and die, you don't need to be the t v or movie drowning. You're dying from esfixiation, and it's a water related esfixiation,. It doesn't have to be water in your lungs. But that happens to something like ten to 20 % of people who died of drowning. Most drowning victims have something like four c c s per kilogram of water in their lungs. So if you're a kid who weighs 50 pounds, it's the ree ounces of water. That was never even called dry drowning. This one is called secondary drowning. If you go to like, the c d c or the world health organization, they're like, those
Hundreds of thousands of people drown around the world every year, and yet it can be easily prevented and is widely misunderstood – like how you can officially drown but live to tell the tale, or how you can drown but die days later. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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