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My 13 month old son swallowed a bot of bath water and i cant tell if he coughed it up. should i worry about secondary drowing? he is in bed asleep now
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Relax: Kids especially have a hyper reactive gag and cough response if any water goes down their windpipe. It is immediate and forceful. If the kid swallowed bathwater, gross as it may be, it went to his stomach. Other than a little diarrhea if he took in a lot of soap, I expect nothing bad will happen.
Answered 3/26/2017
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