Symptoms
The main feature of dry drowning in children is that they look totally fine after the accident. They might act normally without the need for CPR or rescue attempts. Nevertheless, symptoms tend to happen after 1 hour. These include headache, difficulty breathing, abdominal discomfort, chest pain, coughing, extreme tiredness, lethargy, and flu-like symptoms. It can be more difficult to spot dry drowning in kids because they cannot communicate well. Therefore, parents should pay special attention to their little ones after the incident. In more severe cases, lung injury triggered by water immersion might result in pneumonia. [3]
