Watch the video of Lacey explaining the incident.
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A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized after accidentally swallowing pool water. Mother of the girl named Lacey Grace decided to share the details of this horrifying incident to make people alert and protect their children facing a similar situation.
The girl named Elianna Grace was enjoying swimming time with her family at her grandparents’ house in Sarasota, Florida.
“We were all playing, it was a bunch of us,” Lacey recalled the moment.
“We were all just playing, taking the noodle and blowing water in each other’s faces.”
She explained her daughter Elianna was blowing the water in one end to other.
Lacey wrote on Facebook: “As many many children do every day, she was blowing in one end and blowing water out the other,”
“By 100 percent freak accident, Elianna put her mouth to blow out at the same time someone blew in the other end, causing the water to shoot directly down her throat.”
The girl immediately vomited but they thought it is normal.
But the next day, she had a fever. A few days later, Elianna’s fever came down and then came back, Grace took her to the doctor. The doctor said to immediately move her daughter to the nearest emergency room.
“Her heart rate was crazy high, her oxygen was low, and her skin was turning purple which suggested chemical infection,” Grace wrote on Facebook.
Inflammation and infection were shown in chest X-ray and the girl was diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia which is also known as “dry drowning.” This condition happens when water gets into the lungs because of inhaling through the mouth.
Fortunately, Grace Doctor at the right time and they managed to save the girl.
Grace said: “She was on day four,”
“I don’t know what would’ve happened if we waited.”
“If you think something is off, I encourage you to get them checked out.” Sometimes, a mother’s intuition truly does make all the difference.
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