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pkang0202
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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: Dry Drowning.... Now I've heard everything. |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110157.php
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| Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old American boy from South Carolina, died at home on Sunday from "dry drowning" more than an hour after going swimming and walking home with his mother. The sad event highlights a little known danger that parents and child carers should be aware of, that drowning can kill hours after being submersed in water. |
That is some crazy shit. If you swallow some pool/sea water, how the hell are you suppose to know if you are going to "dry Drown" in a few hours? |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
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Feel tired or lacking energy. Behaviour change. If you go to the hospital fast enough you'll be fine.
Yet another thing for parents like me to worry about. Sometimes I think it's a wonder that any kids survive childhood at all. I have to remind myself that the really big killers are no longer. Smallpox killed more than all the drownings, mad cow disease, car accidents, terrorist bombings and serial killers in history put together.
Just checked the wiki on smallpox. To the above list you can add murders and wars. Smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans per year in the 19th century and an estimated 300-500 million last century!
Now it's gone, eradicated. Scratch one up for science. |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
Feel tired or lacking energy. Behaviour change. If you go to the hospital fast enough you'll be fine.
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The problem is, if you've been at the pool/beach all day, you'd feel tired from all the swimming/playing around. |
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ryouga013
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
| Sometimes I think it's a wonder that any kids survive childhood at all. I have to remind myself that the really big killers are no longer. Smallpox killed more than all the drownings, mad cow disease, car accidents, terrorist bombings and serial killers in history put together. |
Funny little jab about mad cow
An interesting thing about children is that they seem to be accident prone but also have an uncanny ability to overcome both physical and mental stress to a degree that may break an adult (of course there are repercussions). An example of children's ability to overcome physical trauma is a small child can survive in freezing water longer than an adult. I guess there was some type of small mechanism to help protect children in us. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! DO NOT EVER, EVER STOP! EVERY DANGER IS WORTH WORRYING ABOUT NO MATTER HOW TINY! |
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! DO NOT EVER, EVER STOP! EVERY DANGER IS WORTH WORRYING ABOUT NO MATTER HOW TINY! |
Don't forget to worry about worry as well. Stress can kill you too.
Modern media spreads information so efficiently these days that many people fear things out of proportion to the real danger involved. With so many billion people in the world there's bound to be hundreds of strange ways to die and they're all in the papers. |
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