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Comic actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as the titular SYNOPSIS: A dry-witted woman, known only as character on the series, which is based on Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, has no filter as she navigates life and love in London 2013 one-woman show of the same name. Monday, June 29, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Everything you need to know about dry drowning Dry drowning refers to delayed illness that is caused by aspiration of water into the lungs, which may cause the vocal cords to spasm and the airway to close up you don’t see a struggle. When people are drowning, they typically do not wave their arms because their arms instinctively push down to try and get their heads above water. A child may not have the ability to keep his or her head up out of the water. There are two primary causes for drowning, which occurs when you can’t get oxygen into your lungs because you are in or below water. The first occurs when someone is under water for too long and the body begins to experience reflexes of panic, agitation and air hunger. When you can’t avoid taking a breath underwater, fluid will rush into the lungs. This is what occurs in about half of all drowning cases. The other type of drowning occurs when the voice box closes off. Known as a laryngospasm, it is a reflex that happens to prevent fluid from getting into the lungs. This could happen if you are below water and holding your breath to the point where you pass out. When any degree of water inadvertently goes “down the wrong pipe” and into the airway whether from swimming or drinking a glass of water, cough is the body’s natural defence mechanism to try to remove fluid. In many cases, when there is a small amount of water aspirated into UNDER THE WATCH: Small children should not be left alone near any body of water, including a bathtub. the lungs, coughing will clear it. In the event that a lot of water gets into the lungs and is not expelled, uestion: Last summer, it can irritate the lining of the lungs there were many reports and cause fluid buildup a condition about “dry drowning” called pulmonary edema. You’d likely where children became notice your child having trouble extremely sick and in breathing right away or it might Qsome cases died days worsen over time. or weeks after swimming. I have Small children may have two children, ages 3 and 8, so I’m difficulty communicating if they hoping to understand what this are experiencing trouble breathing phenomenon is and how I can protect so it is important to be familiar my children from drowning. with symptoms of respiratory Answer: While devastating to the dysfunction, such as prolonged families and communities affected, cough, unusually rapid breathing or dry drowning is a misnomer. There change in mental status — whether are no medically accepted conditions 30 minutes after you’ve been in the known as “near-drowning,” water or a week. “dry drowning” and “secondary If your child seems to be in distress drowning.” Rather, the terms refer at any time, you should call for to delayed illness that is caused by medical assistance. Given the age aspiration of water into the lungs, of your children, the best thing you which may cause the vocal cords to can do to prevent any water injury is spasm and the airway to close up. to be aware, and maintain close and This acute lung injury can develop SYMPTOMS: Small children may have difficulty communicating if they are experiencing trouble breathing so it is constant adult supervision that is over minutes to hours after exposure, important to be familiar with symptoms of respiratory dysfunction, such as prolonged cough, unusually rapid breathing not distracted by cooking, cleaning, though, despite news reports, it is or change in mental status — whether 30 minutes after you’ve been in the water or a week. reading or using a cellphone. Most quite rare. instances of paediatric drownings Drowning when you can’t get for children under 14, according drowning or about 10 people a day body of water, including a bathtub. occur in a setting with inadequate oxygen into your lungs remains a to the Centres for Disease Control who die from drowning. Children can drown quickly and supervision, so being vigilant is the leading cause of unintentional death and Prevention. On average, there Your children are of an age where quietly. It can take less than a minute best prevention. – Mayo Clinic News for people of all ages, especially are 3,500 fatalities annually from they should not be left alone near any for a child to drown. In most cases, Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Monday, June 29, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Playing Betty The portrayal of Betty Broderick allowed Amanda Peet to confront and sink into the complexity of that archetype and find depth in a woman who had been reduced to tabloid fodder, writes Yvonne Villarreal I can understand the feeling of wanting to keep up with the Joneses, wanting to appear to be just flawlessly sane when things inside are not ‘… the discrepancy between the way things appear and the way things are — Amanda Peet, actress I was really scared to play a murderer,” says Amanda Peet. But the 48-year-old actress came to embrace the psychological gymnastics required to take on one of the toughest roles of her career: Betty Broderick, the suburban “housewife convicted of the 1989 murders of her ex- husband and his new wife. “I was really scared to play someone who did that to their children’s father and to their children,” she adds, with the tone of someone still grappling with it. “And behaved in a way that is morally repellent. Yes, that definitely scared me.” The fear resulted in a layered performance that fans and critics have called the best’ of Peet’s career. Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, which also stars Christian Slater as Betty’s ex-husband Daniel Broderick, follows the seemingly ideal romance and marriage of the San Diego couple and their combative split, which preceded the brutal double murder that gripped national headlines. (The anthology series, whose first season was based on a Los Angeles Times podcast, is produced in association with Los Angeles Times Studios.) Once again helmed by Alexandra Cunningham, the second season joins other recent dramas, such as Little Fires Everywhere and Mrs. America, in offering STAR-TURN: Amanda Peet attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, a complicated portrait of a woman whose identity California. is defined by her role as a wife and mother as well as Monday, June 29, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY societal expectations. The portrayal of Betty Cunningham jokes that the questions Broderick allowed Peet to confront and sink would usually reach her only if Peet had into the complexity of that archetype and find already asked Benioff and Paulson, and their depth in a woman who had been reduced to answers were not in agreement. tabloid fodder. “She always was like, ‘I don’t want to “From outside the situation, she was a bother you,’” Cunningham says. “And I’m murderer to me,” Peet says. “Once I was on like, ‘You’re the only person that I want to the inside, she was a person in dire straits bother me.’ But, so, she would say, ‘I asked who had all her eggs in one basket, had no David and he said X and I asked Paulson and psycho-therapeutic resources, and had the she said Y.