[~koe*no*sainou~]

I remember reading an article about a boy dry drowning from a day at the beach where he accidentally inhaled water into his lungs...I was wondering if you could do that just by drinking water? >.< How does water get into your lungs anyway, can someone explain to me?

Thank you ^ ^;

[NoraKoneko]

I don't think it's possible to drown, or dry-drown by drinking water.

You drown and/or dry-drown when too much water has gotten into your lungs, effectively stopping your lungs from doing their job - giving your body oxygen.

The difference between when you drink, and when you drown is that when you drink, your epiglottis ( a part in your throat ) keeps the food and drink you willingly consume from going down your trachea, which is the tube that leads air to your lungs.

When you drown, your body panics from being unable to get air, so your epiglottis opens out of desperation, letting water and anything else in, in an effort to get air.

....makes sense? XDD

[princextammy]

i'm not SURE if that is exactly possible

BUT
i remember i saw on the news that
the group of college boys were having a water chugging contest
one guy had like 40 gallons
and died.

[NoraKoneko]

^--- Well, that's an extreme case, hon. Neither your stomach nor your body can handle 40 gallons, so obviously it backlogs somewhere...and since lungs are like big sponges...he choked on too much water. He basically drowned.

Common sense, people. It's where it's at. ^^"

[random koohkie]

^
^ I think the incident you mentioned was water intoxication..you drink more water than your body can handle. There was a woman who died from consuming too much water for a radio contest; I remember it since I heard it on the radio station. :/

[drago]

its true, sorry to burst your bubble, but you can drown if you drink too much water, there's articles about it if u goggle.

[Fanshu]

damn intense, my dog comes close to dry drowning everyday poor guy, drinks so fast and so much he chokes and pukes out half of what he drinks

[Christinaisweird]

i think you can if you drink more than your body can consume.
it rarely happens not unless you want to die like that.

[trishaa01]

you can dry drown without any liquid at all...

and if you died from drinking too much water, it wouldn't be dry drowning anyways.

[-epik]

I don't think it's possible to drown, or dry-drown by drinking water.

You drown and/or dry-drown when too much water has gotten into your lungs, effectively stopping your lungs from doing their job - giving your body oxygen.

The difference between when you drink, and when you drown is that when you drink, your epiglottis ( a part in your throat ) keeps the food and drink you willingly consume from going down your trachea, which is the tube that leads air to your lungs.

When you drown, your body panics from being unable to get air, so your epiglottis opens out of desperation, letting water and anything else in, in an effort to get air.

....makes sense? XDD

Sorry, this is wrong.
The reason you drown is when you get water inside your lungs, it washed away the powder coating the alveoli, and that makes you suffocate.
Thats why before you 'Dry-Drown' you spew up foamy white stuff (The powder mixed with water) before you die.
^ ^ (I'm a lifeguard)
-Epik.

[usuejung]

yes, it is possible to drown from drinking alot of water.... I am a criminal justice major and learned it in many of my courses.... it is true.... Your body can take certain amount of water... if you go over the limit your body will drowned and you will die.....

[AsianBamboo]

Hm... well this is an interesting thread. =] I honestly am not sure about this one, I know that water intoxication or whatever can happen and you can die, but I have no idea bout dry-drowning. xD Sorry that I'm not any help!

[LunaDiviner]

Your oesophagus splits into two 'paths', one leads down to your stomach and one leads to your lungs. There's a sorta door thing that opens/closes the pathway depending if you're breathing or eating. That's why you shouldn't talk when you're eating because the little door gets confused! And obviously if you're drowning in water you'd be swallowing water whilst trying to get oxygen. There is an automatic reflex for you to cough/gag if things other than air goes into your lungs. So I highly doubt the water will get into your longs.
Though you can die if you drink highly excess amounts of water and not going to the toilet.

[-epik]

Your oesophagus splits into two 'paths', one leads down to your stomach and one leads to your lungs. There's a sorta door thing that opens/closes the pathway depending if you're breathing or eating. That's why you shouldn't talk when you're eating because the little door gets confused! And obviously if you're drowning in water you'd be swallowing water whilst trying to get oxygen. There is an automatic reflex for you to cough/gag if things other than air goes into your lungs. So I highly doubt the water will get into your longs.
Though you can die if you drink highly excess amounts of water and not going to the toilet.

Exactly. Usually, the only case of dry-drowning is at the pool or when one is swimming.
When you are drowning you frantically gasp for air, so when your body's priority is to get air, it wont discriminate from water to oxygen.
So there.

[lovejyk]

Aw, bless your heart for worrying! Don't worry, it's definitely not going to happen. If it did, probably a 1/10000000000000000000 chance that it would.

[Miss Vivienne]

Dry-drowning and water intoxication are 2 separate things.
You can't drown in water if it's going to your stomach, but if you over drink water, it can wash out all your electrolytes.

Dude. What the heck. O_O