A Hispanic boy from Houston dies drowning in the dry a week after he went swimming
A 4-year-old boy died "drowning in the dry" in Houston, Texas, almost a week after he went swimming with his father.
The juvenile's father, Francisco Delgado Jr., told local channel ABC 13 that he and his family had gone swimming at the breakwater of nearby Texas City Memorial Day weekend.
The following Saturday, his 4-year-old son Frankie suddenly awoke from sleep and began to complain of pain in one shoulder.
"Out of nowhere, he woke up saying 'Ahhhh,'" the father recalled. "Then he gave his last breath and I did not know what else to do."
The child's mother, Tara, called 911 and the paramedics came home almost immediately, but their swift intervention could do nothing to save the child.
"I entered [the room]. I just looked at him there, on the ground, "recalls the troubled mother. "They were still working on him. And I would yell 'let me touch my baby. Maybe he needs the touch of his mom! '"
He was one of those paramedics who later explained to the parents that his son had "drowned in the dry".
"Their lungs were full of fluid, there was nothing they could do," said the baby's mother, whom they called Baby Frankie, and was a baseball fan.
Cases of "dry drowning" are very rare and occur hours, and even days, after a child inhales water.
"I've only seen a couple of this kind of cases," Dr. Mark Morocco of Ronald Reagan's UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles told People. However, such unusual deaths have caught the attention of the media in recent years.
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