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Some interesting drowning facts: - Clean and cold water is ideal: pneumonia and metabolism. - If you revive a drowned person, insist they go to the hospital:

by torsday 11y ago

Some interesting drowning facts: - Clean and cold water is ideal: pneumonia and metabolism. - If you revive a drowned person, insist they go to the hospital: CPR can push the fluid in their lungs into their blood, only to return later on, drowning them all the same, "parking lot drowning." - Quite often, water doesn't enter their lungs as their vocal cords spasm. ~ Paramedic in another life

kazinator 11y ago
You mean clean, cold water is ideal for avoiding the bacterial infection (e.g. streptococcus pneumoniae) that causes pneumonia?
- rev_bird 11y ago
  I think it's that the same mechanisms that heal pneumonia heal lungs full of clean, cold water.
- JshWright 11y ago
  Clean to avoid pneumonia. Cold to avoid brain death (or to delay it, at least...)