Does the legendary upside down method in the circle of friends work?

It is not advisable to carry out upside down water control rescue for drowning victims! For if the drowning person is awake, there is no need to do so; If it is delirious and breathing, it is not only the water in the stomach (the water in the lungs is not easy to be controlled), but also other gastric contents, which are very prone to aspiration, causing obstruction and suffocation, and putting the drowning person in a more dangerous state; If the drowning victim is already delirious and has respiratory and cardiac arrest, water control will only delay the rescue time and will not play a beneficial role. Therefore, no matter what state the drowning person is in after being rescued, upside down water control rescue is not recommended, and it is not the correct rescue measure.

People who believe in this practice believe that gravity can be used to expel stagnant water that is inhaled into the lungs when a child is drowning. However, is this first aid method correct and reliable? Do you really know about drowning? Actually, that's how it should be.

Let's first figure out what drowning is?

Drowning refers to the fact that after a person is immersed in water or other liquids, the fluid fills the respiratory tract and alveoli or reflexively causes laryngospasm and causes asphyxia and hypoxia, and is in a state of clinical death [respiratory and/or cardiac arrest].

Drowning can be divided into freshwater drowning and seawater drowning according to the different immersion media. Lung damage and hypoxemia can occur after human drowning inhalation of fresh or seawater, and most of the causes of sudden death in drowning people are severe arrhythmias caused by asphyxiation. Autopsies revealed that about 70 per cent of the drowned victims had respiratory inhalation of vomit, sediment or aquatic plants.

The clinical manifestations of drowning patients vary greatly among individuals, which are related to the duration of drowning, the amount of inhaled water, the nature of the inhalation medium, and the severity of organ damage. This also determines that the measures for its first aid treatment are different and cannot be generalized.

Here's how to deal with it properly after drowning

After rescuing the drowning person from the water as soon as possible, the first thing to determine is what state of consciousness the drowning person is in, i.e., whether he is conscious or not.

If the drowning person is conscious, coughing, and having difficulty breathing, you can help or encourage the person to cough, or pat the person's back to promote the drainage of fluids from the airways, and call emergency services**. At this time, companionship and comfort are good ways to deal with it.

If the drowning victim is unconscious, but can see the chest and abdomen still rising and falling, it means that he is still breathing and alive! At this time, you can take the lateral decubitus position to facilitate the outflow of dirt in the airway, so as to observe breathing and keep the airway open, and quickly remove secretions, vomit and other debris in the mouth and nose, and do not forget to call the first aid**, so that the emergency medical personnel can arrive at the scene as soon as possible and accurately.

There are two ways to hang upside down:

1. One is to bend the knees and hang upside down, fix the feet on the horizontal bar to hang upside down, the hands should be able to touch the ground, and the toes should be as close to the tibia of the lower leg as possible.

2. One is to hang upside down with the instep, find a parallel bar and hang it on one of the parallel bars under the knee, hook the instep on the other bar, and then slowly put the body down.