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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Paul Speed

Secondary drowning: All you need to know including symptoms and when to get help

After Busted singer Charlie Simpson’s son recently spent three days in hospital with ‘secondary drowning’, many were quick to praise the family for raising awareness about the rare condition.

Four-year-old Jago was swimming underwater in a hotel pool when he resurfaced ‘coughing and spluttering’.

After becoming lethargic and vomiting, doctors later diagnosed him with ‘secondary drowning’ – putting him ‘minutes from pneumonia’.

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