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Drinking water & dry drowning - I'm just being paranoid, right?

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 21:41

I couldn't find 7.5mo DD's sippy cup tonight so I let her have a sip of water from a normal cup. I'd let her do this once before and she'd really enjoyed it.

She was excited about it, and grabbed the cup, much harder than I expected. A load of water went into her mouth, at the same time she was making noises, and she choked on it.

She coughed for a couple of minutes, then cried for a while after, not nice Sad

This was a couple of hours ago. She's seemed fine except for some more coughing about an hour ago, which lasted maybe 3 minutes.

Now I'm getting paranoid about dry drowning. What do you think? Am I being nuts or is this a possibility?

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 21:44

FWIW I know dry drowning is possible from inhaling bath water. My question really is can you inhale enough from one go from a cup for it to be a danger?

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 22:00
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gamerchick · 04/12/2013 22:02

No I think she's fine. I really wouldn't worry from what you've said.

ballroomblitz · 04/12/2013 22:07

I wouldn't worry either. 14 mo dd does this frequently and I've choked myself on water quite a few times throughout my life. Still here and breathing.

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 22:10

So I'm just being nuts then, you reckon? Good!

FWIW I didn't worry so much when it happened. It was when she started coughing an hour later. DS said "she's coughing like a big boy!"

I then googled it and read lots of stuff about dry drowning but it was mostly related to bath water.

I know, google can make you paranoid! But I just wanted to check ...

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 22:11

I've choked on water too.

But this was kinda thrown down her throat IYSWIM, rather than choking while already drinking.

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thepobblewhohasnotoes · 04/12/2013 22:11

But I'm sure you're right, it's not possible to be a large enough amount is it?

Thanks for talking me down from paranoia, it helps :)

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Penny123456 · 06/07/2014 19:46

Hey there! The same thing just happened to my daughter. I'm wondering how hours turned out. You never posted again. Was she ok?

Monikadian · 30/03/2017 09:23

My 2 year old daughter was drinking water from a sipper bottle and suddenly she choked and started coughing very hard. Water was coming from her nose. Then she seemed fine after a minute. But i am really worried about secondary drowning. Please help.. Sad

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