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No, your lungs do not completely fill with water when you drown. Yes, some water enter the lungs, but once your lungs receive an over abundance of liquid your throat and chest passage ways will seize up and seal themselves off to prevent them being filled.
When you drown the reason for death is not from your lungs being filled with water but rather asphyxiation brought on by your own body trying to keep from filling with water.
When someone is under the water for a brief period and someone performs CPR to resuscitate them, the person performing CPR is trying to force air into the victim's seized off lung cavities. This is why the victim will only spit up a small bit of water after being rescued from drowning and gasp for air. A person with a lung full with water would not have the ability to gasp.
If someone's lungs were to fill with water, there would not even be a point in trying to resuscitate them since that kind of damage would be irreversible.
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Is it possible that you can die after surviving a drown?
yes you could still have water in your lungs and you can drown in your lungs.
Can a dolphin drown if water gets into its lungs?
yes they can not in water
Can you drown in the shower?
No. You can go swimming and easily get a tablespoon full of water up your nose or down your throat. You need enough water to fill up your lungs in order to drown.
Can you give me examples of harmful liquids?
every liquid can be harmful as you can easily drown as your lungs wll fill with this liquid
Can a yellow bellied slider drown?
yes, they need to fill their lungs with air. although aquatic they need land to bask and breed, if they get stuck underwater they will drown if they have no access to air.
Can your lungs go white from chlorine water?
When you consider that a teaspoon of water in your lungs is enough to drown you. The amount of chlorine water you get down there would definitely not be enough to bleach your lungs anymore then any other part of your body.
Can cattle drown while in water due to sphincter muscle?
No! The sphincter muscle has nothing to do with how a cow breathes! A cow would drown if she cannot swim or if she gets too much water in the lungs.
Do slugs have lungs or gills?
Lungs , no gills. They can drown quite easily.
Can you over fill your bladder?
Yes!!! This is the same with your lungs and water.
Why do people drown in the ocean?
Again people or human beings can never breathe in water from lungs since our lungs do not have enough surface area to absorb water. People drown in the ocean since the ocean is too deep, has too much waves or currents, and is too big for them to swim in.
How much of the lungs are made up of water?
The lungs can't have water in them. Just to keep them moist. But if they did have, i dont know, 86 percent water, just for say, you would like so called "drown" on land I guess.
Can mice breathe under water?
No. If you have a mouse do not put it underwater or you will drown it. Mice breathe with their lungs just like humans.
