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Could i get an infection easily, or pneumonia from water going down the wrong tube in the shower? i coughed a lot and vomited a bit when it happened.
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Very unlikely.: Ingested water, if not in large amount, like in drowning, comes out due to coughing which is body's natural way to remove foreign objects. After a lot of coughing, as you did, most of it must have come out. Whatever didn't usually gets absorbed in to body. Besides shower water also do not carry germs which could cause infection like pneumonia.
Answered 10/26/2015
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