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If water (fresh or salt) fills your lungs you will drown because lungs full of water do not perform their function of gas exchange with the blood.
If some water has entered you lungs or you have been revived after drowning, you must go to hospital because depending on if the water was fresh or salty you blood chemistry will be messed up and you will become ill in a very short time. Only in hospital can this be dealt with.
If only a very very small amount of water enters your lungs, this is not serious but it may make you cough.
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∙ 14y agoVomit is very acidic which can damage the inside of the lungs. This damage, the vomit and the fluids created by the body in the lungs to protect them from the vomit can lead to pneumonia which could become very serious.
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∙ 14y agoYou can drown, it takes a tablespoon, or so. Or you could have pneumonia. Best guess would be that you would cough, a lot.
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∙ 14y agoThe lungs are supposed to help you breath. Water in the lungs means that you aren't getting enough oxygen, which means you will have trouble breathing.
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∙ 12y agoIt may kill you if you have too much water.
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difficulty in breathing as less oxygen coming in the lungs
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∙ 12y agoDrowning.
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Can you die if water enters your lungs?
It's called drowning.
Why are the lungs called the excretary organs?
Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour are the waste products of respiration. The Veins provide deoxygenated blood to the lungs which excretes these waste products out of the body. So, lungs are called excretary organs.
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.
What is an animal that has lungs and legs and can live in water called?
Amphibians such as toads, frogs and newts, etc.
What takes in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide and water?
The lungs through a process called respiration
What are bat lungs called?
LUNGS
What is a squirrels lungs called?
lungs
What is the movement of air on and out the lungs?
The movement of air on and out the lungs is called respiration. The movement of air into the lungs is called inhalation (inspiration). The movement of air out of the lungs is called exhalation (expiration).
What are squirrel lungs called?
They are called "lungs" just the same as those in humans.
What are birds lungs called?
Birds lungs are called lungs but birds also possess air sacs for help in respiration .
How much water does the body lose each day from the lungs?
Two ways, your body sends water to the lungs. This usually happens during infections of the lungs, such as pneumonia. Or you can "inhale" water. Your body is trained to "swallow" water, so you have to be intaking air when water is introduced.
Do shark have lungs?
No, they have gills.Sharks do not breathe with lungs, but with gills that absorb the oxygen in the water.
