A 10-year-old boy has died after taking what appeared to be a normal leisierly swim!

After the boy got out of the water, dried himself off and later when to bed, his mom went to wake him up after a while, possibly to eat supper, he did not respond. She noticed some foam around him near his face.

She frantically called 911 and the paramedics came out to try to revive him, but to no avail. It was later learned that the boy unknowingly took in too much water into his system when everything seemed normal and that there seemed nothing out of the ordinary.

The grieving mom was later interviewed and was sad, upset and heartbroken over losing her beloved son.

Later, it was learned that the boy had died from what is known as dry drowning, a condition where water enters the body through the mouth during swimming - almost similar to him drinking too much water.

Parents please, with the hot sunny days of summer upon us, the kids will want to take dips into the pool to cool off. But please keep an eye on them, even after they've exited the water to make sure that they are ok. And do not leave them unattended for a while to make sure that nothing goes terribly wrong with them!!

It could mean the difference between life and death! Stay with your little ones and monitor them very closely. There is probably nothing more sad and tragic than losing a loved one!!

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Meanwhile, a life was saved when another little boy age 5 went under the water. He entered the pool without the protection devices around his arms that help keep him afloat in the water.

His best friend just a year older had faintly noticed him at the bottom of the pool, went to pull him up and bring him to the edge. He yelled for help and some nures who just happened to be there began perfoming CPR.

The boy was brought back to life and is doing fine. But he has his little buddy to thank for saving him from certain death!

I spent entire days in a pool when I was a kid. So have many others. This is a sad story, but not something that'll change my life.

It will if you have kids of your own, your kids themselves have friends, or if you have very young nieces and nephews over with THEIR friends.

You'll want to protect them from such a tragedy!

Protect them by teaching them to swim you mean, right?

Yes, as well as protect them from being in danger of drowning by having them wear protection gear to keep them safe.

And DO NOT let them lie down or go to sleep until after they've been out of the water for a while!! This helps assure that they won't dry-drown in their sleep.

Even as they sleep, it's not a bad idea to check on them often. Or have them sleep in the same room with you until you think that all is well.

This tragedy seems rare, but it's also common. Don't take any chances at all!!!

Thank you Dr. Spock.

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Rare but common eh?

Stop it with the name calling.

Think it's funny, huh? I suppose that you don't have any kids of your own.

Well, neither do I, but I still don't want them to die from this or anything else. I care about kids an awful lot. Read some of my thread "Tutoring Small Children at School", and you'll see why.

OH MANNNNN!!!

How completely tragic is this story..my heart would fail if it were my own child, I was always on my guard with my children..but had a close encounter with a wading pool years back with my daughter..I am thankful nothing went haywire..

Poor lil boy..his mother is broken..its un-fathomable..thank you for the info, as my grand-daughter is now with her parents swimming, I dont think you can do anything of this boys condition..it is rare..

Sherri

Yeah I think its funny. Rare but common. That's a hoot.

I also think its funny that someone with no kids hears about some freak accident and suddenly thinks he's here to tell parents how to raise their kids.

Yeah, I have kids. They swim as long as they want just like I did when I was a kid and no, I'm not going to hover over them after to make sure they don't stop breathing suddenly.

Having them wear protection gear is in my view an alternative to teaching them to swim. The flotation devices teach them to be dependent on them and make them weaker swimmers and/or slow down their progress in learning to swim. If your kid can't swim, perhaps they should be supervised while in the water until they can swim.

Ras..
Am I to stress climbing borders to find you and wrestle you to the ground to get you in submission to seek out a weakness in you?? if so..could it be that this is the weakness.. ( Pity )? at least?

Ok..you and I and many others have been fortunate in having children who's immune system functions normally.. In this case argued by Daquan..it was hopeless..its just a word of concern to make people aware of things un-expected. Its to easy for you and I..why? because we have had no interruptions in our life as far as personal sickness with our children..or surprise sickness ..that is to say..for me,,there are some concerns with my daughter..but I digress.

Daquan is basically going ahead of those who have no fair warning..Ras..he is not trying to tell us how to raise the kids..but maybe for future reference sake..giving us a heads up on what could be a possible tragic event in our lives..Someday you will have grandchildren..so those first couple of dunks in the pool may very well save your grandchild as you watch from a distance..Its a good thing..we can learn from this..

Grandchildren are golden to me and someday you Ras, I have arrivals here..so I will indeed watch..Mainly family members,,I think that is what he is stressing..

Sherri

Where is my bat..I just need to thump you a few times..he-he

His heart is in the right place I guess. I just don't like kneejerk, reactionary calls for action or living in fear. Who knows what tomorrow might bring - you have to enjoy today. A long day at the beach is good for that.

Hi! Thank you!!

I love ALL children, reguarless if they were my own or not. It dosen't matter.

And for him to even assume that I'm trying to tell him how to raise his children, well, that is totally out of line, ill-timed and obsurd!! Just because I have no kids of my own, it doesn't mean that I have no experience in raising them, because I have.

I've probably helped raise more kids than the ones that you already have, Ras. In addition to tons of nieces and nephews as well as children in my neighborhoods, I've spent the better part of 35- 40 years caring for children! I've cooked for them, made sure that they had a place to stay the night while their moms were out running the streets and looking for crack, clothed them, kept them happy and made sure that they were clean, loved them and helped them with their howework as well as having taken them to the movies, amusement parks, and other places, even letting them spend weekends with me. We all got along with each other very well.

You raise your kids as you see fit, it's true. But at the same time, don't come telling me or incinuating that I have or had no exprerience in raising children. Why must you always start so much blasted controversy?

And guess what? All those children who spent time with me and like me so much, they've thanked me 100 times over for touching their lives and alerting them of any impending dangers that they might encounter.

It really pains and purely breaks my heart to hear that a child has died so tragically - especially when the tragedy could have been avoided so easily. The loss of a loved one can really hit home big time!

Yes, one can always have another child as long as they are able to, but you can't ever replace that extra special child who is so dear and close to your heart!

Kev, no one in their right mind is going to leave a child alone in the pool if they can't swim. I certainly wouldn't! Any child who was and is with me when I go to either a public or school pool, I strictly let them know that if they can't swim, then don't venture over to the deep end of the pool, and to stay in the shallow end.

I never said you don't like kids. My only issue is with the response to tradgedy.

I never accused you of saying that I don't like kids.

I care very deeply about them all, which is why I said what I said. But you got defensive and maybe offended and thought that I was trying to tell you and others how to raies your children, when that was not my intent at all.

That is why I fired back at you. If you warned my about tragedies like that and advised me on what to do, I'd NEVER take it as an offense or an assumption that youi were telling me how to raise children, but as a friendly suggestion. That is all.

I think it is very common to allow kids to go swimming without their parents along when they are not strong swimmers - especially older kids. Yes people do warn them to stay 'in their depth' - but we all know how kids do what they are told right? Kids like to push boundaries - their own as well as other people's - it's normal and part of growing and learning.

My suggestion on the swimming question is kids should be taught to swim as infants. From what I have seen babies are particularly good learners of swimming (theoretically because they are yet to learn the fear responses about water that are the major barrier to swimming when they grow a bit older). Apportioning blame is usually counter-productive, but when a kid dies because their parents never taught them to swim, or better yet had a pro do it, it is hard not to see some level of responsibility for the tragedy. This leaves me with a feeling of empathy more than sympathy for their situation.

Everyone knows the best way to teach a child to swim is simply toss them in the deep end.

With supervision, caution and staying by his or her side.

And BTW, a 16-year-old died today after diving off a rock and into the water, only she hit a rock on the way down, landed in the water and never came to the surface.

She was successfully rescued,but she was in very critical condition and she later died.

That gives them an out. To really take advantage of that full committment factor you get when they think their life is threatened, the kid has to believe they'll drown if they don't make it to the side.

She dived off of something, hit a rock in mid air on the way down, then landed in the water? Or, do you mean, she dove into the water where she struck a rock and was critically injured?

She might have struck the rock in the water as she dove in, because she never came back up.

The news media has since switched it around, now saying that she died at the scene, when it said yesterday, that she was recued and taken to the hospital where she later died.

Boy, they love to screw things up!!