{"id":616,"date":"2023-02-12T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=616"},"modified":"2023-02-12T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:51:32","slug":"4-year-old-boy-stops-breathing-dies-week-after-common-activity-almost-every-kid-enjoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/4-year-old-boy-stops-breathing-dies-week-after-common-activity-almost-every-kid-enjoys\/","title":{"rendered":"4-Year-Old Boy Stops Breathing, Dies Week After Common Activity Almost Every Kid Enjoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after he had been swimming, a 4-year-old boy from Texas died of dry drowning.<\/p>\n<p>KTRK reports that Francisco Delgado III died a week after he had been swimming with his family at the Texas City Dike near Galveston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby Frankie,&#8221; as his parents called him, had symptoms of an upset stomach after swimming, but he seemed to be getting better and his parents thought nothing of it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, about a week after he had gone swimming, Frankie woke up in the middle of the night and stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\" data-zone-count=\"5\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-empty not-filled\">\n<div id=\"ad-c8d18f5c7ee0441aad986416af284b4f\" data-google-query-id=\"CK35m-zFkP0CFXeg_QcdXf4CEg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Out of nowhere, he just woke up. He said ahhh,&#8221; Frankie&#8217;s father, Francisco Delgado Jr., told KTRK. &#8220;He took his last breath and I didn&#8217;t know what to do no more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Jr. called 9-1-1 and Frankie was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I walked in. I could see him lying there,&#8221; Frankie&#8217;s mother Tara Delgado, told KTRK. &#8220;They were still working on him. I&#8217;m screaming. Let me just touch my baby. Maybe he needs his mama&#8217;s touch. When [the doctor] came in, she told us it&#8217;s what&#8217;s called dry drowning. His lungs were full of fluid. There was nothing else they could do for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frankie had fluid in his lungs and around his heart, according to WXIN.<\/p>\n<p>Dry drowning happens hours or even days after a person inhales water. Experts say that symptoms include troubled breathing, coughing, sleepiness, fatigue and vomiting.<\/p>\n<p>Once water gets in a person&#8217;s lungs, it irritates them, causing them to fill with fluid, Purva Grover, medical director of Cleveland Clinic Children&#8217;s pediatric emergency departments, told USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might not witness your child inhale any pool water, but it&#8217;s important to watch out for signs soon after an event that could cause dry drowning,&#8221; Grover said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very unusual for the child to have absolutely no symptoms, but they may go to bed and in the middle of the night have trouble breathing. It takes a couple of hours, for the fluid to emerge in the lungs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kay Leaming-Van Zandt, a doctor at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, told KTRK that its possible for children to drown in just a few inches of water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It only takes a split second,&#8221; Leaming-Van Zandt said. &#8220;Drowning is silent. It&#8217;s not similar to what you see in the movies where there is a lot of commotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dry drowning cases are rare, but parents should always be aware of the risk, Grover told USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My best advice is when a child has a near-drowning event in the water, the first thing is to get a professional opinion,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/news\/child-dies-after-swimming-at-texas-city-dike\/2068971\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KTRK<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fox59.com\/2017\/06\/07\/texas-boy-dies-of-dry-drowning-days-after-going-swimming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WXIN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2015\/06\/26\/dry-drowning-secondary-drowning-pool-water\/29274851\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after he had been swimming, a 4-year-old boy from Texas died of dry drowning. KTRK reports that Francisco Delgado III died a week after he had been swimming with his family at the Texas City Dike near Galveston. &#8220;Baby Frankie,&#8221; as his parents called him, had symptoms of an upset stomach after swimming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}