What to do if you drown while swimming

Recently, many people have experienced water ingestion while swimming, which has a great impact on us and may cause death due to suffocation. Therefore, during the swimming process, we must control our breathing to avoid drowning, which will cause us more harm. However, at the beginning, drowning is unavoidable. What should we do if we drown while swimming?

1. Self-rescue for drowning in a swimming pool:

When drowning occurs, you can take self-rescue measures if you are not familiar with water.

1. In addition to calling for help, lie on your back with your head tilted back so that your nose is above the water so you can breathe.

2. Exhale shallowly and inhale deeply. Because when you take a deep breath, the body's specific gravity drops to 0.967, which is slightly lighter than water, and you can float to the surface (when you exhale, the body's specific gravity is 1.057, which is slightly heavier than water).

3. Don't panic at this time and don't raise your arms and wave them around, which will cause your body to sink faster.

If you can swim and get calf cramps, you should stay calm, stroke on your back, use your hands to bend the toes of the cramped leg toward the back to relieve the spasm, and then slowly swim to the shore.

To rescue a drowning person, you should quickly swim to the drowning person, observe the location clearly, and rescue from behind. Or throw in wooden boards, life buoys, long poles, etc., so that the person who falls into the water can climb ashore.

2. Rescue after getting out of water

1. Clean the mud, phlegm and mucus in the mouth and nose of the drowning person, remove the dentures, and then control the water.

2. The rescuer bends one knee and places the drowning person face down on the rescuer's thigh, using this position to allow the water in the drowning person's body to be discharged from the trachea and mouth.

3. In some rural areas, the drowning person is placed face down on the back of a cow, with his head and feet hanging, and the cow is driven to walk. This method controls water and performs artificial respiration at the same time.

4. If the drowning person's breathing and heartbeat have stopped, immediately perform mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration and external chest massage at the same time.

Only by understanding what to do if you drown while swimming can we better deal with emergencies and more effectively get rid of the potential threats posed by drowning to ourselves. Each of us may experience drowning, so we must seek scientific swimming methods that can effectively alleviate the helplessness of drowning.