TO REVIVE AN UNCONSCIOUS PERSON, NEVER GIVE WATER!

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NEVER EVER MAKE AN UNCONSCIOUS PERSON 

DRINK WATER TO REVIVE CONSCIOUSNESS


YES ,you read it right. It's a very common practice of ours to 

provide water to a person who has met with an accident or who

 is unconscious or on verge of getting unconscious. There is a 

BIG medical reason for this. The concerned wrote:


I, being an MBBS student, learnt this thing in my Forensic Medicine 

class. Forensics is a subject taught to us in MBBS 2nd year. Once,

 in a forensic practical, when we were viewing a postmortem of a 

man who died after a road accident (apparently), our Prof. Put 

pressure on the corpse (dead body's) chest. As he did so, a lot of

 blood and watery fluid came out from the dead man's mouth. That 

was when we were told that the victim had not died of injuries inflicted

 by the accident. In fact, because of trauma, he had fallen unconscious

 on the road and some pedestrians, in an attempt to revive him, put 

water in his mouth!!!!


When we are unconscious, our laryngeal muscles (throat muscles for 

a layman) are relaxed . thus, as the victim was given water, it went 

through his wind pipe ( trachea) into his lungs. So actually, the person 

died because of DROWNING IN THE WATER PROVIDED TO HIM.


even in the PMR (PostMortem Report) the cause of death wasn't any 

head injury or organ injury, but it was "Drowning due to aspiration of 

water into the lungs"


Hope this thing helps. Next time, you see a person injured and 

unconscious after a road accident, DONT PUT WATER IN HIS 

MOUTH. Instead:


-Turn him to the side so as to ensure unobstructed(patency) 

airways(I.e. the air passage is not blocked)


-immediately take him to the hospital


This is a very popular but wrong notion in our country ...to give

 water to an unconscious person to revive him. Need to spread 

awareness.

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