Nobody in my office thinks you can, but I know I've heard this stat before...
2007-01-23 03:43:20 · 30 answers · asked by MarkHday 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
there are actually 3 types of drowning wet drowning, dry drowning and secondary drowning you can not wet drown in a teaspoon of water but you can dry drown you also can secondary drown. drowning is basically suffocation caused by water. wet drowning is when you inhale so much water that your lungs are full and you can not breathe.secondary drowning is when you inhale a small amount of water which has no immediate effect it then "foams up" in the lungs as you are breathing finally having the same effect as wet drowning this can take up to 3 days. dry drowning is when you inhale water and the airways leading to the lungs close to prevent more water from entering the lungs this also suffocates you.but both secondary and dry drowning are rare to come by
2007-01-23 04:26:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely NOT. It's an old wives tale.
Think about it. Teaspoon of water = 5ml. Get a teaspoon and see how little water it is.
Hospital patients can have 10 or 20 times this amount of fluid drained from their lungs without them being dead...you can be drowned in half an inch of water (deep) though...face pushed flat into water.
2007-01-23 06:36:14 · answer #2 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think I know what you are talking about. There is a certain amount of water that it takes to drown in...any less than that, and you can't drown so if given that last teaspoon of water, it can cause you to drown....make sense?
2007-01-23 04:05:51 · answer #3 · answered by teelob 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes you can drown on a table spoon of water. It is not a common way of death but you can drown on a table spoon of water.
2015-04-03 10:05:50 · answer #4 · answered by Jason 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have always heard 3 inches of water. I think that if it were a teaspoon and it inhaled it you would just have liquid down the wrong pipe. Like when you are drinking and it does that. So I don't think so.
2007-01-23 03:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by Kit 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
It is not well known, but it can and has happened. It mostly happens to people with water allergies. Yep, can you believe there are people who are allergic to water? It's very sad and if they were to swallow a teaspoon of water it would cause their throat to close up, cut off their circulation and eventually they drown.
It's a very scary thing.
2007-01-23 04:22:47 · answer #6 · answered by #1 auntie 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
My mum used to tell me this when I was a kid,
Apparently if you enhale it, it will go into yr lungs & then you drown.
But I reckon our mum just wanted us to stop playing in the river at the bottom of the garden & coming in with a wellie full of water!
2007-01-23 03:48:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Are you suicidal? This probably isn't the best way to do it...
Haha. Just kidding...um...I think it'd be pretty difficult to actually inhale water from a teaspoon in the first place...
2007-01-27 00:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by Person M 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
if your mouth and nose r close together then yes but if your clever enough not to suck up the water and choke to death then no you can not drown on a teaspoon of water
2007-01-23 03:56:44 · answer #9 · answered by charley h 1 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Depending of the size of the teaspoon they come in different sizes. As for drowning...you could if you rushed things and tipped it down your nostrils then it would go into your pharynx and into your lungs. A good idea is to slowly lift it to your mouth and sip it.
2007-01-24 06:17:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋