The parents took their 4-year-old son and they all went swimming in the pool. But soon after, the sporty child Francisco Delgado III complained of abdominal pain, diarrhea and began to vomit. Unfortunately, the parents thought their son just had bacteria that would go away on their own, so they weren’t concerned and didn’t take him to the doctor.

A week after this incident, the child woke up one morning, said “Uh-huh” and then died in the arms of his distraught father.

His mother told reporters: “The doctors told us he had drowned. His lungs were full of fluid. There was nothing that could be done for him.”

Doctors seem to have come up with a not-so-well-known diagnosis: Dry drowning, when a person breathes underwater, never reaches the lungs as in normal drowning, but instead results in blockage of the vocal cords and eventual closure of the airway for breathing.

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